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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Thirsty Evil by Gerald Verner
Gerald Verner was one of the many pen names used by John Robert Stuart Pringle (1897-1980). Other pseudonyms were Thane Leslie, Derwent Steele, Donald Stuart, and Nigel Vane. Donald Stuart was the name he used initially, writing 44 stories for the Sexton Blake...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Creeping Venom by Sheila Pim
Sheila Pim (1909–1995) was an Irish novelist and horticulturalist. She wrote four witty crime novels and three serious novels along with a biography of Irish botanist Augustine Henry. She also was an enthusiastic cultivator of flowers and vegetables and wrote...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in High Place by R. B. Dominic
Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart (1929-?) 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, their shared...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Miss Pinnegar Disappears by Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining beer-drinking lawyer whose ethics do not always align with those of other attorneys. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the...
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...
