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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Robbed Blind by Roy Hart
Between 1987 and 1994 Roy Hart, a British avionics engineer, wrote nine police procedurals fronted by Detective Superintendent Douglas Roper of the Dorset County Criminal Investigation Department on the southern coast of England. Similar in many ways to the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Well Dressed for Murder by Laverne Rice
Laverne Rice (1890-1966) was a schoolteacher in New York, who also wrote short stories. Indexing is spotty for the years she was active, but the following complete citations were found with tantalizing suggestions of others: "Haze." NEW COPY. Columbia University...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) published more than 50 novels, the first when she was 19 years old. She wrote a dozen country house mysteries, eight in the 1930s, two in the 1940s, and two in the 1950s. The remaining books are historical fiction and historical...
Friday’s forgotten Book: Death Stops the Frolic by George Bellairs
George Bellairs, pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), is best known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, which were released between 1941 and 1980. He also wrote a few stand-alone mysteries, among them...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head
One of the most intriguing aspects of Golden Age and mid-20th century authors is their almost endless versatility. So many of them seem to toss off a few mystery novels as a diversion from their real lives, which have nothing to do with writing. Ellen Wilkinson...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Basil Thomson
Dean Street Press kindly put a number of their Golden Age reprint ebooks on sale recently and I took advantage of their generosity. Among my purchases was The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Sir Basil Home Thomson (Eldon Press, 1937; Dean Street Press, 2016)....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes
I am continuing to indulge in the ebook releases of the fabulous Inspector Henry Tibbett series. The third book, Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962), finds Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett emulating his globe-trotting creator and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was a prolific author of the Golden Age who did not fade into obscurity as many GAD authors did. So much has been written about her that I will only say that she published 18 novels featuring Albert Campion between 1929 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Odds-On Murder by Jack Dolph
Jack Dolph is the pseudonym of John Mather Dolph (1895-1962). He was a race horse trainer, an American writer of pulp crime novels, radio producer, television scriptwriter, and actor. He published five mysteries between 1948 and 1953, mostly about horseracing, then...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Deductions of Colonel Gore by Lynn Brock
Lynn Brock (1877-1943) was the pseudonym of Alister McAllister, an Irish writer. He first wrote plays as Anthony Wharton and then turned to crime fiction using the name Lynn Brock. He created the character of Colonel Gore who starred in five books and a...
