Martha Albrand

{{short description|German-American novelist (1914–1981)}}

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| pseudonym = Holland, Katrin; Lambert, Christine; Katrin J. Lamon; Heidi Huberta Freybe Loewengard

| birth_name = Heidi Huberta Freybe Loewengard

| birth_date = 1914

| birth_place = Rostock

| death_date = {{Death date|1981|06|24|df=y}} (age 66){{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/26/obituaries/martha-albrand-66-novelist-who-worked-in-suspense-genre.html | title=Martha Albrand, 66, Novelist Who Worked in Suspense Genre | date=26 June 1981 | newspaper=The New York Times | accessdate=3 August 2015}}

| death_place = New York

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| occupation = German-American novelist

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| awards = Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

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Martha Albrand (1914–1981), born Heidi Huberta Freybe Loewengard was a German-American novelist. Albrand was the name of her Danish great-grandfather.{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=6}}

She was the sister of the actress Jutta Freybe and the writer Johanna Sibelius.

The film Captain Carey, U.S.A. was based on her novel After Midnight.

In 1950, the book After Midnight won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.rayonpolar.com/Guides/Prix/Prix_pdf.php Guide des Prix littéraires], online ed. Le Rayon du Polar. Synopsis of French prizes rewarding French and international crime literature, with lists of laureates for each Prize. Grand Prix de littérature policière: pp. 18–36.