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Dupe by Liza Cody
Liza Cody introduced Anna Lee, an early female private investigator in the book Dupe (Collins, 1980), which won the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for best debut crime novel of the year in 1981 and was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1982....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: An Oxford Tragedy by J. C. Masterman
Sir John Cecil Masterman, OBE (1891-1977) was a versatile gentleman. He was a Modern History don at Christ Church, Oxford during the 1920s, while he also played cricket, tennis, and hockey, participating in international competitions. He is best...
A Dead Liberty by Catherine Aird
I really miss Catherine Aird (1930-2024), the creator of the wonderful Christopher Dennis Sloan, otherwise known as CD, the long-suffering inspector of the fictional Beresbury CID in West Calleshire, England. West Calleshire was largely drawn from the county of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blueprint for Murder by Roger Bax
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. In 1952 he joined the Detection Club. He...
The Handle by Richard Stark
I found The Handle (Pocket Books, 1966) by Richard Stark, i.e., Donald Westlake, on my Kindle a couple of weeks ago. I did not remember reading it, or perhaps my reading was too long ago to recall, but I promptly moved it up on my metaphoric stack. The Handle is...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bland Beginning by Julian Symons
Cruising through eBay last fall, always a dangerous pastime, I found a group of books in the short-lived Unicorn Mystery Book Club. The subscription service published four crime fiction novels in a single volume, beginning in 1945 and ending in late 1952. The 83...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.