Douglas Stapleton (1907-1972) and his wife Dorothy Tucker Aden Stapleton (1917-1970) collaborated on radio shows, short stories, a Broadway play, and mysteries. I have been unable to locate a bibliography but The Corpse Is Indignant (Five-Star Mysteries, New York,...
Malcolm Hutton (1921-??) was an English career civil servant, working for the Department of Civil Defence and running the Joint Computer Organisation of the Home Office and the London Metropolitan Police. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1946 and became a...
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred books using some twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Of his many series characters, the Toff, the sobriquet of the Honorable Richard Rollison,...
I read right on through to the very end of 2023 and one of my final reads of the year made it onto my best of list, showing that compiling those lists before the end of December is not a good idea for me. Herewith are 20 books that stood out of all the books I looked...
Rufus Frederick King (1893-1966) was an American crime fiction author. He wrote multiple series: the earliest with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective akin to Philo Vance; 11 novels about New York police Lieutenant Valcour from 1928 to 1939; another with...
