Archives
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lullaby of Murder by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916-2014) was known for her deeply human characters and the sensitivity and compassion with which she portrayed them in her suspense fiction. She was nominated for an Edgar Award six times, served as President of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Her Death of Cold by Ralph McInerny
Recently I was checking my shelves for books I could spare in response to a frantic call from a relative who ran out of things to read when I noticed my books by Ralph M. McInerny (1929-2010). I have not thought about his mysteries for years and decided to look at...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
How I love Georgette Heyer! Her historical romances have an honored place on my bookshelves. I read some of them so often I can quote entire sections from memory. While Heyer wrote more than 40 romances, she only wrote about a dozen mysteries, although some of her...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
The crime fiction output of Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was only 14 novels but their influence was profound. Her work continues to be read, reprinted, and analyzed nearly 60 years after the publication of the last book in 1963, when she turned to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Leaning Man by Christopher Bush
Christopher Bush (1885-1973) is another prolific writer of the Golden Age who faded from view in the past 50 years. Why his books have not been reprinted while his contemporaries have been is a mystery in itself. Through the assiduous efforts of Dean Street Press,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder of Lydia by Joan A. Cowdroy
Joan A. Cowdroy (1884-1946) was an early 20th century English author who started writing general fiction and then discovered her talents for developing mysteries. Her first series detective was Chief Inspector John Gorham of Scotland Yard and then she created Li...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake
First, I have to say this is not really a forgotten book. It’s been in print one way or another ever since it was published more than 70 years ago. I read Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake (Collins, 1947) over the weekend. It is the eighth Nigel Strangeways and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Laughing Dog by Francis Vivian
The Laughing Dog by Arthur Ernest Ashley writing as Francis Vivian (Hodder & Stoughton, 1949) is the fifth mystery from Ashley/Vivian that features Inspector Gordon Knollis of New Scotland Yard. Here is another series being rescued from undeserved oblivion by...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Middle Temple Murder by J. S. Fletcher
Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He is known for his prodigious literary output. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction (Source: Wikipedia)....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of Alan Copeland by Moray Dalton
Dean Street Press has decided beneficently to rescue Golden Age author Moray Dalton from undeserved obscurity and reprinted 10 of her books. We who are unfamiliar with this author have much to look forward to. Katherine Mary Deville Dalton (1881-1963) fell into a...