Zelda Popkin (née Feinberg; 5 July 1898 – 25 May 1983) was an American writer of novels and mystery stories. She created Mary Carner, one of the first professional female private detectives in fiction. Carner was a store detective who appeared in five novels.

Zelda Popkin was married to Louis Popkin, and together they ran a small public relations firm until his death. They had two children, Roy and Richard.

Popkin's most successful book was The Journey Home, published in 1945, which sold nearly a million copies.^{[citation needed]} Small Victory, published in 1947, was one of the first American novels with a Holocaust theme, and Quiet Street (1951) was the first American novel about the creation of the state of Israel.^{[citation needed]}

She also wrote an autobiography, Open Every Door (1956), chronicling her childhood, life with her husband Louis Popkins, and life after his death.^{[citation needed]} Herman Had Two Daughters (1968), a novel about two young Jewish women growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, is also largely autobiographical.^{[citation needed]}

• 1952 Jewish National Book Award for Quiet Street^[1]

• Death Wears a White Gardenia (1938)
• Time Off for Murder (1940)
• Murder in the Mist (1940)
• Dead Man's Gift (1941)
• No Crime for a Lady (1942)

• So Much Blood (1944)
• The Journey Home (1945)
• Small Victory (1947)
• Walk Through the Valley (1949)
• Quiet Street (1951)
• Open Every Door (1956)
• Herman Had Two Daughters (1968)
• A Death of Innocence (1971)
• Dear Once (1975)

• Open Every Door (1956)

• FantasticFiction
• http://www.uky.edu/~popkin
• http://www.uky.edu/~popkin/zelda.htm

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