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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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Neat Little Corpse by Max Murray
Maxwell Alexander Murray (1901-1956) was born in Australia and died there. Early in his career he decided to work his way around the world and stayed in the U.S. laboring in lumber camps, freight yards, and a tugboat for several years. He became a foreign...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by Carter Dickson
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by Carter Dickson (William Morrow, 1945) is the 16th appearance of Sir Henry Merivale, man of many talents including physician and barrister. He encounters Lady Helen Loring at a hotel in Cairo where he is staying supposedly for his...
Intrigue for Empire by Kathleen Moore Knight
Kathleen Moore Knight (1890-1984), who also wrote as Alan Amos, was an American author who started her crime fiction career by writing amateur detective novels and then transitioned into international thrillers. Her series detectives were first Penberthy Island...
Fell Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
Fell Murder by E. C. R. Lorac is another reprint from the British Library Crime Classics series. Originally published in 1944 by Collins, it was also reprinted by Rare Treasure Editions in 1921. The British Library edition has an introduction by crime fiction...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Advertised Murders by Minna Bardon
Minna Feibleman Bardon (1900-1974) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She wrote romance, detective, children’s, and science fiction short stories before writing several books of mystery and romance. She was also a copywriter for the Thompson Advertising Agency, editor...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (1886–1975) is a legend in the crime fiction world. He received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 1959. The Nero Wolfe series was nominated as Best Mystery Series of the Century at the 2000 Bouchercon mystery convention, and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: She Shall Have Murder by Delano Ames
She Shall Have Murder by Delano Ames introduces Jane Hamish and Dagobert Brown in a post-war gem first published in 1948 and reprinted by Rue Morgue Press in 2008. Ames released twelve amusing mysteries featuring the pair between 1948 and 1959. Tom and Enid Schantz...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Spin Your Web, Lady! by Richard and Frances Lockridge
The first and third books in the Captain Heimrich police procedural series by Richard and Frances Lockridge are hard to find. The series consists of 24 books released between 1947 and 1977. Heimrich is part of the New York State Police Criminal Investigation...
