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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Every Second Thursday by Emma Page
Emma Page was the pseudonym of Honoria O’Mahony Tirbutt (1921-2018). She wrote 14 classic British police officer books about Detective Chief Inspector Kelsey and Detective Sergeant Lambert of the Milbourn CID between 1980 and 2000. The second one in the series is...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lady in Lilac by Susannah Shane
Harriette Ashbrook (1898-1946) was a journalist and author from the Midwest, born in Kansas. She was a newspaper reporter for the Lincoln Journal before joining Harper’s as a publicist. From there she became the publicity director for the Coward-McCann Publishing...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Wings by Moray Dalton
Moray Dalton was the pen name of Katherine Mary Deville Dalton (1881-1963), who wrote two romances and then turned to creating crime. Her first mystery was released in 1924 and it was succeeded by 28 more, the last one in 1951. Most of the books featured Scotland...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Black Is the Fashion for Dying by Jonathan Latimer
Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (1906–1983) was an American crime fiction writer known for his novels and screenplays. Before becoming an author, Latimer was a journalist in Chicago. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Venner Crime by John Rhode
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, published between 1925 and 1961. He also wrote short stories, stand-alone...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers! by Ellis Peters
Everyone knows Ellis Peters as the creator of Brother Cadfael, that wise and worldly inmate of the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, who appeared in 21 historical mysteries set between 1137 and 1145. The monastery was inevitably pulled into the civil war that...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Then There Were Three by Geoffrey Homes
Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring (1902 –1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, where he attended Fresno University. He held various jobs, including migrant fruit picker, private investigator and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Guilt Is Plain / The Black Envelope by David Frome
Zenith Jones Brown (1898 – 1983) was an American crime fiction writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. Brown began writing as David Frome in 1929 while living in England. She used...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Chinese Doll by Wilson Tucker
Arthur Wilson Tucker (1914 –2006) was an American author of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker. Tucker was also a prominent member of science fiction fandom, who wrote extensively for fanzines under...
Miss Silver: Baby Bootees and Murder
Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, volume 39, number 2, Summer 2023 Doris Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull (1878-1961) wrote under the name Patricia Wentworth. Her first book about Miss Maud Silver, a former governess turned successful private investigator,...
