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Another Reprint Recommendation: I Start Counting By Audrey Erskine Lindop
As long as we are talking about crime fiction that deserves to be reprinted, I want to mention one of my enduring favorites which has been long out of print. There is one first edition copy on eBay for $476 in the UK. ABE Books has one first edition for $217 in...
Nomination for Classic Crime Reprints
Kate Jackson of Cross Examining Crime is asking for suggestions for what out-of-print classic crime novel should be reprinted next. See the original discussion here:...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder with Relish by Guy Cullingford
Constance Lindsay Dowdy Taylor (1907-2000) began publishing stories, poems, and articles for periodicals in 1928. Her marriage put her writing career on hold for several years. In 1948 her first detective novel, Murder with Relish, was published by Skeffington...
Wax Flowers for Gloria by Pat Flower
Patricia Mary (Pat) Flower (1914–1977) was born in England and moved to Australia with her family when she was 14. She worked in an office and wrote radio plays and sketches during the 1940s. In the 1950s she began writing crime fiction. Her first five books were...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Walked in Kashmir by M. M. Kaye
Mary Margaret Kaye (1908-2004) was born in India, where her father was a civil servant. Her heart never left the country, even as she returned to England for an education and traveled with her Army husband all over the world. She’s best remembered for her epic...
One Man’s Meat by Colin Watson
One Man’s Meat is the ninth title in the Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson. The series of 12 gently sardonic and clever police procedurals featuring Detective Inspector Walter Purbright and Detective Sergeant Sidney Love in the prosperous market and port town...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lay On, Mac Duff by Charlotte Armstrong
Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969) was a U.S. author of novels, short stories, and plays. She also worked in the advertising section of the New York Times and as a fashion reporter. She’s most well known for domestic suspense novels, some of which were adapted for...
Murder Strikes Pink by Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924-2014) was the daughter of author Joanna Cannan and the sister of playwright Denis Cannan and authors Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson. Cannan and her three daughters were mostly known for their books about ponies and pony clubs....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bank Vault Mystery by Louis F. Booth
Louis F. Booth (1903-1996) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a civil engineer with a firm in New Jersey, and he wrote two mysteries when he lost his job on a large construction project during the worst of the Depression. From the Family Search website:...
Stars for the Toff by John Creasey
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred books using some twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Of his many series characters, the Toff, the sobriquet of the Honorable Richard Rollison,...
