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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Now I Lay Me Down to Die by Elizabeth Tebbetts-Taylor
Elizabeth Tebbetts-Taylor (1917-2001) was a U.S. author from the West Coast. Born in Oregon, she spent most of her life in southern California. She wrote film scripts, short stories, and novels. Her most well-known novel was Tarifa, published by Dell in 1978. She...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Homicide House by David Frome
Zenith Jones Brown (1898–1983) was a U.S. crime fiction writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. Brown began writing as David Frome in 1929 while living in England. She used the pen...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder Made Absolute by Michael Underwood
Michael Underwood was the pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn (1916-1992), a British civil servant and author. Evelyn was called to the Bar in 1939, then served in the British Army during the war. Afterwards he entered the Department of Public Prosecutions, where...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder by the Day by Veronica Parker Johns
Veronica Parker Johns (1907-1988) only wrote five mystery novels and several short stories before turning her attention to running a seashell shop in New York. She was a member of the Mystery Writers of America during its early years and a member of the New York...
If It Isn’t One Thing by Steven F. Havill
Steven F. Havill, a resident of New Mexico, launched his Posadas County series in 1991 with his older undersheriff Bill Gastner as the protagonist in a vivid depiction of small town police work on the border of the United States and Mexico. Havill progressed the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fly Country by Anthony Lang
John George Haslette Vahey (1881 – 1938) was born in Belfast and was educated at Ulster, Foyle College, and Hanover. He first worked as an architect and then as an accountant and then became a full-time writer. His first of 52 novels was published in 1916 and his...
Untouchable by Mike Lawson
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and grab a copy of the latest Joe DeMarco adventure, which is out today. Untouchable by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2025) is the 18th title in a consistently fine political thriller series that began 20...
Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White
Crippen & Landru Publishers (C&L) produces single-author short story collections, both current crime fiction authors and uncollected stories by mystery and detective writers of the past. It’s the latter that I find most valuable, since so many authors...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) has long been one of my all-time favorite authors. Well known for creating the Regency romance, she also produced mysteries and historical fiction. She considered a trilogy about the House of Lancaster her master work but she was unable...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson
Colin Watson (1920–1983) was an English journalist and author of a successful detective series set in the prosperous market and port town of Flaxborough in East Anglia. Flaxborough is a fictionalized version of the town of Boston in Lincolnshire where Watson was a...
