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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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hopjoy Was Here by Colin Watson
I finally got around to picking up another title in the Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson. Why I waited so long I do not understand. I loved the first one I read and I loved Hopjoy Was Here (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962), the third in the series of 12 gently...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Sunken Sailor by Patricia Moyes
Patricia Moyes (1923-2000) published 19 traditional British detective stories featuring Henry Tibbett, a Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, and his wife Emmy between 1958 and 1993. While they were popular during the last half of the 20th century, they were not...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert (1912 – 2006) was an English solicitor and well-known author of crime fiction. His work includes 30 novels and approximately 185 stories in 13 collections, as well as stage, radio, and television plays. He was made a Commander in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming
Joan Margaret Fleming (1908–1980) was a British writer, turning out children’s stories first and then moving on to crime fiction, publishing about 30 books in that field. Her novel The Deeds of Dr Deadcert (Hutchinson, 1955) was made into the...
