Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, published between 1925 and 1961. He also wrote short stories, stand-alone novels,...
Richard Hull was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973), a British accountant who became a crime novelist, publishing 16 books beginning in 1934. During World War II he revived his accounting skills and became an auditor for the Admiralty. His first book,...
This week Happiness Is a Book is observing the 30th year of Crippen & Landru, a well-known small press that specializes in single author collections of short crime fiction. Founded in 1994 by Edgar nominee Doug Greene, C&L continues today with Jeff Marks in...
Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) wrote dozens of mysteries beginning in 1938, publishing them under her own name and under the pseudonyms D. B. Olsen, Dolan Birkley, and Noel Burke. Her series characters include Jim Sader, a PI; John Farrel, a railroad detective; and A....
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,...
