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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining lawyer whose ethics do not bear scrutiny. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert. Malleson also used the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree (Gollancz, 1968) is the second book by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (1900-1970) in his mystery series about a Cambridge don named Dr. R. V. Davie. Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint Clinton Clinton-Baddeley was a British playwright,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Lyttleton Case by R. A. V. Morris
Ronald Arthur Vennor Morris (1877-1943) was born in Wales but mostly lived in England, working in London before moving to Hove in Sussex. The Lyttleton Case (Collins, 1922) is his only work of fiction. It was selected for the Detective Story Club, the forerunner of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The House of Shade / Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye
Mary Margaret Kaye (1908-2004) was born in India and lived there until she was sent to boarding school in England. She was originally an illustrator of children’s books until she decided to try a thriller. Her most famous book is The Far Pavilions, a historical...
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...
