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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Lepers’ Hollow by George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a Manchester bank manager as well as a freelance journalist. He published 57 popular classic police procedurals featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard between 1941 and 1980. He also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes (1864-1929) was born in the Midlands of England. By the early 1900s she lived in London and moved in literary and feminist circles. Her early stories were serialized in newspapers, some were later revised and published in book form. Her first novel The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bloody Instructions by Sara Woods
Dean Street Press, that champion of forgotten authors, has undertaken to reprint the entire set of Antony Maitland courtroom mysteries, all 48 of them. This series has unaccountably remained out of print for an unconscionable length of time. Written by Sara Woods...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson
Clemence Dane (1887-1965) was the pseudonym of London native Winifred Ashton, who was a playwright, sculptor, screenwriter, and novelist. She wrote more than 30 plays, including A Bill of Divorcement, which was made into a film starring Katherine Hepburn in 1932....
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...
