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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Crime, the Place, and the Girl by Douglas & Dorothy Stapleton
Douglas Stapleton (1907-1972) and his wife Dorothy Tucker Aden Stapleton (1917-1970) collaborated on radio shows, short stories, a Broadway play, and mysteries. I have been unable to locate a bibliography but The Corpse Is Indignant (Five-Star Mysteries, New York,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Without a Trace by Malcolm Forsythe
Malcolm Hutton (1921-??) was an English career civil servant, working for the Department of Civil Defence and running the Joint Computer Organisation of the Home Office and the London Metropolitan Police. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1946 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Here Comes the Toff by John Creasey
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred books using some twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Of his many series characters, the Toff, the sobriquet of the Honorable Richard Rollison,...
Best Reads of 2023
I read right on through to the very end of 2023 and one of my final reads of the year made it onto my best of list, showing that compiling those lists before the end of December is not a good idea for me. Herewith are 20 books that stood out of all the books I...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Holiday Homicide by Rufus King
Rufus Frederick King (1893-1966) was an American crime fiction author. He wrote multiple series: the earliest with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective akin to Philo Vance; 11 novels about New York police Lieutenant Valcour from 1928 to 1939; another with...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime for Christmas by C. H. B. Kitchin
C.H.B. (Clifford Henry Benn) Kitchin (1895-1967) was a man of many talents. He became a solicitor in 1924, he was a farmer and a schoolmaster, and he made a good deal of money playing the stock market. He had eclectic interests, including botany, linguistics,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Nobody Loves a Dead Man by Milton M. Raison
Milton M Raison (1903-1982) was an American writer better known for his radio, television, and film scripts than his books, although his first book was adapted for the big screen. For more about his career in movies, see his IMDb profile here:...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
The Black Camel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1929) by Earl Derr Biggers is the fourth of six mysteries Biggers wrote about Honolulu police officer Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American with eleven Americanized children. Inspector Chan’s appearances in a series of not...
Friday’s Forgotten Friday: Murder in Jackson Hole by Maude Parker
Maude Louise Parker Pavenstedt (1892-1959) was born in Galveston, Texas, and attended the University of Wisconsin. She began writing early and documented her experience as the wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy during the years of political unrest before...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Student Body by Nigel FitzGerald
Nigel FitzGerald (1906-1981) was an Irish actor who starred in detective films and served as president of the Irish Actor’s Equity Association for a time. He wrote a dozen mysteries between 1953 and 1967, all published by Collins. Only half of them were also...
