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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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Good Night, Sweet Prince by Carole Berry
Good Night, Sweet Prince (St. Martins, 1990) is the third amateur detective mystery by Carole Berry featuring Bonnie Jean Indermill, an office temporary worker in New York City. Eight titles were released in this series between 1987 and 1999. Like the John Putnam...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (Poisoned Pen Press, 2018) is the latest release in the British Library Crime Classics series. Originally published in 1932, this is the only mystery by the author, who was a Labour Member of Parliament much of her life,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dreadful Hollow by Nicholas Blake
The Dreadful Hollow by Nicholas Blake (Collins, 1953) is the 10th book featuring Nigel Strangeways, an occasional poet who spends more time looking into things for people than writing verse. In this outing Strangeways is retained by Sir Archibald Blick, a wealthy...
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My...