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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Lepers’ Hollow by George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a Manchester bank manager as well as a freelance journalist. He published 57 popular classic police procedurals featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard between 1941 and 1980. He also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes (1864-1929) was born in the Midlands of England. By the early 1900s she lived in London and moved in literary and feminist circles. Her early stories were serialized in newspapers, some were later revised and published in book form. Her first novel The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bloody Instructions by Sara Woods
Dean Street Press, that champion of forgotten authors, has undertaken to reprint the entire set of Antony Maitland courtroom mysteries, all 48 of them. This series has unaccountably remained out of print for an unconscionable length of time. Written by Sara Woods...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson
Clemence Dane (1887-1965) was the pseudonym of London native Winifred Ashton, who was a playwright, sculptor, screenwriter, and novelist. She wrote more than 30 plays, including A Bill of Divorcement, which was made into a film starring Katherine Hepburn in 1932....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in the Squire’s Pew by J. S. Fletcher
Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 – 1935) was an English journalist and author. He is known for his prodigious literary output. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction (Source: Wikipedia). The Golden Age of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Whiskey River by Loren Estleman
Loren D. Estleman is a literary treasure that no one seems to talk about much. He has been steadily producing one book after another for over 40 years. Author of crime fiction and Westerns as well as nonfiction, the list of his works on Wikipedia is likely...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.