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Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is familiar to me as a fine writer of historical adventure. I have read nearly all of his Saxon Chronicles set from 866 A.D. to 937 A. D. His stories about the Napoleonic Wars are told through the eyes of British soldier Richard Sharpe. I was not...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Body Behind the Bar by Cecil Freeman Gregg
British author Cecil Freeman Gregg (1898-1960) was a chartered secretary and accountant like fellow Golden Age author and contemporary Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973) who wrote under the name Richard Hull. Gregg published 42 mysteries between 1928 and 1960, with...
The Spoils of Time by June Thomson
June Thomson (1930-2022) was an English author who wrote 20 traditional detective mysteries about Inspector Jack Finch and Sergeant Tom Boyce, then focused on writing Sherlock Holmes adventures, producing six volumes of short stories, a novel, and a book of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Accident by Design by E. C. R. Lorac
Accident by Design (Collins, 1950) by E. C. R. Lorac is the 34th appearance of Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald. Even with more than 45 books to her credit by this time, Lorac (real name Edith Rivett) demonstrates she’s not out of ideas. What’s left...
Copper Gold by Pauline Glen Winslow
The backs of dust jackets on older books are often filled with blurbs about the book in hand or the author’s earlier works but sometimes, especially the dust jackets of first editions or debut works, advertise the publisher’s other authors in that genre. It’s a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Threepence to Marble Arch by Paul McGuire
Dominic Mary Paul McGuire (1903–1978) was an Australian author, Catholic activist, and diplomat, writing mostly poetry and nonfiction and for a few years crime fiction. His 16 mysteries were all published between 1931 and 1940, after which he pursued less frivolous...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.