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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Youth Hostel Murders by Glyn Carr
Frank Showell Styles (1908-2005) was a multi-talented writer and expert mountain climber. He published a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including children’s books, books on mountains, historical adventure, humorous articles, and mysteries, more than 160...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Dentist’s Chair by Molly Thynne
Death in the Dentist’s Chair is one of only six mysteries written by Molly Thynne and the second of three with the intriguing Dr. Constantine, a socialite and chess master. Originally published in 1932 by Hutchinson & Co, this Golden Age classic was re-issued...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Silver Horseshoe by Gerald Verner
Gerald Verner was one of the many pen names used by John Robert Stuart Pringle (1897-1980). Other pseudonyms were Thane Leslie, Derwent Steele, Donald Stuart, and Nigel Vane. Donald Stuart was the name he used initially, writing 44 stories for the Sexton Blake...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Wreath for the Bride by Maria Lang
Kate Jackson drew my attention to Maria Lang (1914-1991) a few weeks ago in her review of No More Murders!, one of three Lang books translated into English. See...
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller
Marcia Muller released her 35th book about Sharon McCone in 2018. Sharon is one of the earliest contemporary female private investigators I could find. Of course there was Miss Silver who first appeared in the late 1920s and Honey West, who was a caricature of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murders in Volume 2 by Elizabeth Daly
Elizabeth Daly (1879-1967) published her first mystery in 1940 and released 15 more in quick succession, the last one in 1951. Mystery Writers of America referred to her as "the grande dame of women mystery writers" when awarding her a "Special Edgar" in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy
Louis Tracy (1863-1928) was an inventive and versatile English author. From the Golden Age Detection Wiki: “….journalist and author of science fiction, adventure, crime and some supernatural fiction. His best-known detectives are the Scotland Yard team of...
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...