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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,...
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...
