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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Style by Emma Lou Fetta
Emma Lou Fetta (1898-1975) was a native Hoosier, born in Richmond, Indiana, where she attended Earlham College, a Quaker educational institution founded in 1847. She became a journalist, a foreign correspondent, and the press officer for The Fashion Group, a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: What a Body! by Alan Green
In 1950 Alan Green, a partner in the Green-Brodie advertising agency, won the Edgar for best first novel. It seems to have been his only mystery. The other nominees for best debut that year were Bart Spicer, who went on to write 15 or so books in four series;...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon’s Day by J. J. Marric
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels. Creasey was a human writing machine, producing more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Mostly he’s known for his crime fiction, of which there...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder Rents a Room by Sara Elizabeth Mason
Sara Elizabeth Mason (1911-1993) was an American writer from the Deep South, who taught school as well as worked in academic libraries. Her background is thoroughly described in an article by Curtis Evans posted on his blog on 21 June 2018,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bath Mysteries by E. R. Punshon
I decided I had neglected my studies of Bobby Owen far too long, so recently I read one of the earlier books in the series by Ernest Robertson Punshon (1872-1956), an industrious Golden Age author of crime fiction, short stories, and literary criticism. Writing as...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Outwitting Trolls by William G. Tapply
This week’s forgotten book is really about a series that is too good to fade into oblivion. Before Victoria Houston wrote about fly-fishing in fictional Loon Lake, Wisconsin, and Keith McCafferty gave us Sean Stranahan, a fly fisherman and private investigator in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Through a Glass, Darkly by Helen McCloy
Helen McCloy (1904-1992) was an American mystery writer. She published about 30 books including a volume of short stories. Thirteen of these books and the collection of short stories featured her series character Dr. Basil Willing, a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder on “B” Deck by Vincent Starrett
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (1886-1974) was born in Canada and was educated in Chicago. He became a reporter and war correspondent in WW1. He was an editor and writing teacher; he reviewed books for the Chicago Tribune for over thirty years....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) does not need an introduction. However, just in case, he was an attorney who didn’t care for the practice of law. He started writing pulp fiction in the 1920s so that he could leave the law as a profession behind. The general public...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Pigeon Blood Rubies by M. McDonnell Bodkin
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933) was an Irish politician, newspaper editor, barrister later appointed County Court Judge for County Clare, and member of the Irish parliament. He wrote in multiple genres and in 1897 created the detective Paul Beck, who...
