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RICHMOND, Va. — Novelist Phyllis A. Whitney, whose romantic suspense tales sold millions of copies and earned her top accolades from the Mystery Writers of America, died Feb. 8, her son-in-law said Thursday. She was 104.

Whitney died in a Charlottesville hospital, not far from her home in Nelson County, her son-in-law, Ed Pearson, said.

Whitney wrote more than 75 books, including three textbooks, and had about a hundred short stories published since the 1940s.

Whitney's last novel, "Amethyst Dreams," was published in 1997. She began working on her autobiography at 102.

In 1961, Whitney's sixth juvenile mystery "Mystery of the Haunted Pool" received the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best children's mystery story of the year. She won the award again three years later for her book "Mystery of the Hidden Hand."

In 1988 Whitney was named a Grand Master, the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor. In 1990, she received the Agatha award, for traditional mystery works typical of Agatha Christie, from Malice Domestic.

Born in 1903 in Yokohama, Japan, to American parents, Whitney lived in the Philippines and China before coming to the United States at 15 after her father died. She had already begun writing at the age of 12 while a student in a missionary school in China.