The Knavish Crows by Sara Woods
The Knavish Crows (Collins, 1971) by Sara Woods may be the only Antony Maitland title I have not managed to read and collect over a long period of acquiring worn ex-library and tattered paperback copies of the series. It seems not to have been published in the United...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Alarum and Excursion by Virginia Perdue
Another book this week from The Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 series, edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. (See the entire list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/84989.50_Classics_of_Crime_Fiction_1900_1950) In the series preface to...
Death of a Darling by E. X. Giroux
I have been looking into mysteries that I missed one way or another when they were new. One series that sailed past me when it was published in the 1980s features London barrister Robert Forsythe and his highly competent secretary Abigail Sanderson in 10 traditional...