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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Suddenly While Gardening by Elizabeth Lemarchand
Suddenly While Gardening (Walker, 1978) by Elizabeth Lemarchand (1906-2000) is the 10th mystery featuring Detective-Chief Superintendent Tom Pollard of New Scotland Yard and his partner Detective Inspector Toye. On a well-deserved vacation to a rural village...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan
So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan (John Long, 1947) is one of the Mordecai Tremaine mysteries, either the third (Amazon) or the fifth (Stop, You’re Killing Me). Tremaine is a retired tobacconist whose choice of leisure reading is romance stories and whose hobby...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird
Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird (Macdonald, 1968) is the second book in the Calleshire Chronicles, featuring Inspector C.D. Sloan and his inept assistant DC Crosby. Calleshire is an imaginary county somewhere in England, quite large enough apparently to support...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon
Eilis Dillon (1920-1994) was a productive Irish author whose primary target audience was the young adult reader. She wrote 38 YA books as well as two plays, an autobiographical history, eight novels, and three mysteries, two featuring retired Professor Daly,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle
Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle (Pocket Books, 1990) is the first of six political thrillers released between 1990 and 1995 featuring Tom Bethany, a former member of the Olympic wrestling team and a Vietnam vet, who describes himself as a security consultant but...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: In the Shadow of King’s by Nora Kelly
In the Shadow of King's by Nora Kelly (St. Martin’s Press, 1984) is the first of five mysteries featuring Vancouver academic Gillian Adams and her long-distance lover Edward Gisborne of Scotland Yard. In this debut Gillian returns to the University of Cambridge...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Red Castle Women by Margaret Widdemer
The Red Castle Women (Doubleday, 1968) is the last book written by prolific novelist, children’s author, and poet Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978), who shared the Pulitzer Prize for poetry with Carl Sandburg in 1919. This gothic romance is set along the Hudson River...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Foggy, Foggy Death by Richard and Frances Lockridge
Foggy, Foggy Death by Richard and Frances Lockridge (J. B. Lippincott, 1950) is the fourth book in the Inspector Heimrich police procedural series, which consists of 24 books released between 1947 and 1977. Heimrich is part of the New York State Police Criminal...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blackshirt Passes By by Roderic Jeffries
Blackshirt Passes By (Hutchinson, 1953) is the third Blackshirt adventure by Roderic Jeffries in the continuation of his father’s series. Blackshirt has had a long and unusually varied career. Graham Montague Jeffries (1900-1982) under the pen name Bruce...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Curiosity Killed a Cat by Anne Rowe
Curiosity Killed a Cat (Morrow, 1941) is the third book by Anne Rowe and the first with Inspector Josiah Pettengill in Maine. Kay Wentworth moves with her widowed engineer father to Cliffport, Maine, where he will consult with the Federal government on the upgrade...