Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Takes a Flat by Miles Burton

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Takes a Flat by Miles Burton

Death Takes a Flat (Collins Crime Club, 1940) by Miles Burton, one of the pen names of Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964), is the 21st case of former military intelligence officer Desmond Merrion and Inspector Henry Arnold of Scotland Yard. Major Pontefract’s plans...
The Dust and the Heat by Michael Gilbert

The Dust and the Heat by Michael Gilbert

The Dust and the Heat is one of Michael Gilbert’s stand-alone novels published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1967 and published by Harper in 1968 as Overdrive in the U.S. It was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award in 1968, which I am delighted to learn because I...
Murder in High Provence by George Bellairs

Murder in High Provence by George Bellairs

Murder in High Provence (John Giffords, 1957) by George Bellairs, the 27th case of Inspector Thomas Littlejohn, opens with a visit to the Littlejohn home by the Minister of Commerce, Spencer Lovell. Lovell’s only brother Christopher and his wife Elise were killed in a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Late Wives by Carter Dickson

Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Late Wives by Carter Dickson

One of the later Sir Henry Merrivale mysteries by Carter Dickson, My Late Wives (Morrow Mystery, 1946; Heinemann, 1947) starts in 1934 when a serial killer known under various names meets and marries young women who disappear after signing over their modest bank...