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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Student Body by Nigel FitzGerald
Nigel FitzGerald (1906-1981) was an Irish actor who starred in detective films and served as president of the Irish Actor’s Equity Association for a time. He wrote a dozen mysteries between 1953 and 1967, all published by Collins. Only half of them were also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher
No one familiar with mysteries needs an introduction to Anthony Boucher. To be thorough however, quoting from Wikipedia: “William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, was an American author, critic, and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: An Abuse of Justice by Roger Parkes
I think I have someone in the UK Crime Book Club on Facebook to thank for mentioning Roger Parkes (1933-2008), who was a British screenwriter and a novelist. Primarily known for his work on British television, he also turned out about a dozen novels. The Dark...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Walk the Dark Streets by William Krasner
William Krasner (1917–2003) was an American psychologist and mystery author. His service in the Army Air Corps gave him educational benefits under the G.I. Bill and allowed him to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University. He also studied...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder of a Novelist by Sally Wood
Sally Wood (1897-1985) was a native of Rochester, New York. Her papers reside in the Special Collections section of the University of Rochester library. A description of the papers and the following biography are on the university’s website:...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Say Yes to Murder by W. T. Ballard
Willis Todhunter Ballard (1903-1980) was an American author and a cousin of Rex Todhunter Stout. Ballard was known for his Westerns and mystery stories, novelettes, and book-length novels. He wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps, almost all mysteries and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Every Second Thursday by Emma Page
Emma Page was the pseudonym of Honoria O’Mahony Tirbutt (1921-2018). She wrote 14 classic British police officer books about Detective Chief Inspector Kelsey and Detective Sergeant Lambert of the Milbourn CID between 1980 and 2000. The second one in the series is...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lady in Lilac by Susannah Shane
Harriette Ashbrook (1898-1946) was a journalist and author from the Midwest, born in Kansas. She was a newspaper reporter for the Lincoln Journal before joining Harper’s as a publicist. From there she became the publicity director for the Coward-McCann Publishing...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Wings by Moray Dalton
Moray Dalton was the pen name of Katherine Mary Deville Dalton (1881-1963), who wrote two romances and then turned to creating crime. Her first mystery was released in 1924 and it was succeeded by 28 more, the last one in 1951. Most of the books featured Scotland...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Black Is the Fashion for Dying by Jonathan Latimer
Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (1906–1983) was an American crime fiction writer known for his novels and screenplays. Before becoming an author, Latimer was a journalist in Chicago. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy....
