Elizabeth Tebbetts-Taylor (1917-2001) was a U.S. author from the West Coast. Born in Oregon, she spent most of her life in southern California. She wrote film scripts, short stories, and novels. Her most well-known novel was Tarifa, published by Dell in 1978. She...
Zenith Jones Brown (1898–1983) was a U.S. 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 the pen...
Michael Underwood was the pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn (1916-1992), a British civil servant and author. Evelyn was called to the Bar in 1939, then served in the British Army during the war. Afterwards he entered the Department of Public Prosecutions, where he...
Veronica Parker Johns (1907-1988) only wrote five mystery novels and several short stories before turning her attention to running a seashell shop in New York. She was a member of the Mystery Writers of America during its early years and a member of the New York Shell...
Steven F. Havill, a resident of New Mexico, launched his Posadas County series in 1991 with his older undersheriff Bill Gastner as the protagonist in a vivid depiction of small town police work on the border of the United States and Mexico. Havill progressed the age...
