Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Code-Letter Mystery by David Sharp
David Sharp, dates unknown, was an English author who published 11 mysteries featuring Professor Henry Arthur Fielding and his friend Sheridan Orford between 1930 and 1940. None of my usual sources offered biographical information about Sharp. Both the New York Times...
And One Cried Murder by Lee Thayer
Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American author who published 61 mystery novels under the name Lee Thayer between 1919 and 1966. All but one feature the wealthy private investigator Peter Clancy and his valet Wiggar, who bears a striking resemblance to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Fog Comes by Mary Collins
Earlier this year when I attended Left Coast Crime in San Francisco, I was fortunate enough to visit the Bancroft Library, the special collections library of the University of California at Berkeley, where Randal S. Brandt, Curator of the California Detective Fiction...