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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees
Dilwyn Rees is the pseudonym of Glyn Edmund Daniel (1914-1986), who was a Welsh professor of archaeology at Cambridge University. During World War II he ran a section that analyzed aerial photographs. Afterwards he edited and wrote several books in his field as...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Corn-Weather by Mary Meigs Atwater
Mary Meigs Atwater (1878-1956) is known for her leadership in reviving interest in handweaving as a form of artistic expression. She was born and raised in Iowa and met her husband as a student in Paris. Her marriage took her throughout the American West before the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Five Matchboxes by John Russell Fearn
John Francis Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was a productive English writer, publishing short stories and novels under multiple pseudonyms including Hugo Blayn, Gina Dewall, Preston James, Volstead Gridban, and Elton Westward. He is best known for his science fiction...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Saint Maker by Leonard Holton
Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983) was born in Ireland but lived in the United States from his late 20s on. He was a versatile and prolific writer, turning out short fiction, novels, history, and biography for adults and children under multiple pseudonyms. Wikipedia...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death of an Eloquent Man by Charlotte Murray Russell
Charlotte Murray Russell (1899-1992) published a dozen mysteries about Jane Amanda Edwards between 1935 and 1951. She converted her hometown of Rock Island, Illinois, into the fictional Rockport where Edwards lived. Russell wrote four mysteries with Police Chief...
The Indigo Necklace by Frances Crane
Frances Kirkwood Crane (1896-1981) wrote 26 mysteries between 1941 and 1965 with private investigator Pat Abbott and his wife Jean in the crime-solving role. The Abbotts were based in San Francisco but travelled constantly so the stories are set in a range of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Place for Murder by Emma Lathen
Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, they decided to undertake...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in Harley Street by John Rhode
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet, and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, published between 1925 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Post after Post-Mortem by E. C. R. Lorac
The British Library is steadily re-releasing the catalog of E. C. R. Lorac, title by title. Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac. Nearly all of the Lorac titles, about 45 of them, feature...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Texas by Ada E. Lingo
Murder in Texas by Ada Emma Lingo (Houghton Mifflin, 1935; Coachwhip, 2016) is another of those books that stands alone as its creator’s known output. Ada Lingo started as a journalist writing up social events for newspapers and then earned a medical degree which...
