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And One Cried Murder by Lee Thayer
Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American author who published 61 mystery novels under the name Lee Thayer between 1919 and 1966. All but one feature the wealthy private investigator Peter Clancy and his valet Wiggar, who bears a striking resemblance to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Fog Comes by Mary Collins
Earlier this year when I attended Left Coast Crime in San Francisco, I was fortunate enough to visit the Bancroft Library, the special collections library of the University of California at Berkeley, where Randal S. Brandt, Curator of the California Detective...
What Should You Know of Dying? by Tobias Wells
Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes (1923-2013) was an American crime writer. She wrote more than 40 mysteries and many stories under the names Stanton Forbes, Tobias Wells, and DeLoris S. Forbes. She also wrote four books with Helen B. Rydell under the name Forbes...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin
Anne Austin (1895-?) was a journalist turned novelist. Her books were originally serialized in newspapers and then published as books. Newspaper articles of the time report publication of romance novels before she took up writing crime fiction. Her bibliography...
The Galloway Case by Andrew Garve
Paul Winterton (1908–2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist better known under the pseudonym Andrew Garve. He also published under the name Paul Somers and his first books were attributed to Roger Bax, releasing more than 40 novels between 1938 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr
I thought it was time to visit the prolific John Dickson Carr and Dr. Gideon Fell again. I found a shining example of Carr’s locked room puzzle expertise in Till Death Do Us Part (Harper & Brothers, 1944; British Library Crime Classics, 2021), the 15th case of...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.