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Murder in High Provence by George Bellairs
Murder in High Provence (John Giffords, 1957) by George Bellairs, the 27th case of Inspector Thomas Littlejohn, opens with a visit to the Littlejohn home by the Minister of Commerce, Spencer Lovell. Lovell’s only brother Christopher and his wife Elise were killed...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Late Wives by Carter Dickson
One of the later Sir Henry Merrivale mysteries by Carter Dickson, My Late Wives (Morrow Mystery, 1946; Heinemann, 1947) starts in 1934 when a serial killer known under various names meets and marries young women who disappear after signing over their modest bank...
Angel Without Mercy by Anthea Cohen
Anthea Cohen was the pseudonym of Doris Simpson (1913-2006), a UK author who worked for twenty-five years as a nurse in hospitals and as a private nurse. She has written about medicine and hospitals, contributing to Nursing Mirror and World Medicine journals. She...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: One Murdered, Two Dead by Milton Propper
Milton Morris Propper (1906-1962) was an American writer of early police procedurals, publishing 14 novels between 1929 and 1943, all with the same series character Tommy Rankin, a detective in the Philadelphia Homicide Bureau. He joined the Pennsylvania...
Murder Superior by Jane Haddam
Jane Haddam was the pen name for Orania Papazoglou (1951-2019), a college professor, magazine editor, and full-time author. Her first mystery about Patience Campbell McKenna, a romance novelist who became an investigator, was nominated for the Best First Novel...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) is anything but forgotten but the focus of mystery readers is on her full-length novels and the collections of short stories, where Mr. Montague Egg, one of my favorite Sayers characters shines. No one talks much about the...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.