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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Renowned Be Thy Grave or the Murderous Miss Mooney by P. M. Carlson
Patricia Carlson taught psychology and statistics at Cornell University and turned some of her experience into her Maggie Ryan mysteries. Maggie is married to an actor and she teaches statistics at the university level in between amateur sleuthing. Carlson also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Gardenia by Elliot Paul
Elliot Harold Paul (1891-1958) was an American journalist and author. After serving in the Army he began writing books and published three by 1925 when he joined the expatriate American colony in Paris, France. He worked on newspapers and journals and wrote novels...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Tears a Comic Strip by Theodora Du Bois
Theodora Du Bois (1890-1986) was born Theodora Brenton Eliot McCormick in Brooklyn. She wrote poetry and plays from an early age and attended the Dartmouth Summer School for Drama in 1916. She co-authored Amateur and Educational Dramatics in 1917. She...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fair Warning by Mignon G. Eberhart
Mignon G. Eberhart, 1899-1996, was a prolific author of mysteries and romantic suspense. Her long career began in 1929 with a mystery featuring Sara/Sally Keate, a nurse in New York, who was Eberhart’s only series character. Keate featured in seven books. The rest...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Tempt Me Not by Anthony Weymouth
Anthony Weymouth was the pseudonym of Ivo Geikie Cobb (1887-1953), a London physician and author. Cobb wrote a number of books on clinical topics and seven detective novels about Inspector Treadgold of Scotland Yard as well as an autobiography. The Golden Age of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
Lady Catherine Manning, wife of career British civil servant Sir David Manning, might have been satisfied with the demands of traveling with her husband all over the world. But she led another life writing crime fiction under the name Elizabeth Ironside. Her first...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bohemian Connection by Susan Dunlap
Macavity and Anthony award winner Susan Dunlap is perhaps best known for her first mystery series, one of the early portrayals of women as law enforcement professionals instead of amateur sleuths. Jill Smith, a homicide detective, appeared in 10 novels between 1981...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Cancelled in Red by Hugh Pentecost
Judson Pentecost Philips (1903-1989) started his literary career writing short stories for pulp magazines. His first book about Inspector Luke Bradley, Cancelled in Red (Dodd Mead, 1939), won the $1,000 Red Badge Prize and the $10,000 prize for the Dodd Mead...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Two & Two Make Twenty-Two by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning
I knew Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) as an author of historical fiction. Her book about pioneers on the Santa Fe Trail called Jubilee Trail (1950) was on bestseller lists for months and was turned into a successful film of the same name. She also wrote a generational...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Last Will and Testament by Elizabeth Ferrars
I looked at Elizabeth Ferrars’ first book about Andrew Basnett last year, which I liked enough to want to sample more of her considerable body of work. This week I read her first story about Virginia and Felix Freer, a hopelessly mismatched married couple. Virginia...
