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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death and Taxes by David Dodge

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death and Taxes by David Dodge

by | Nov 7, 2025

David Francis Dodge (1910-1974) was a versatile U.S. author of crime fiction and amusing travel books. He published multiple travel articles on assignment for magazines and then incorporated the settings into his fiction. To Catch a Thief is his most famous novel....
Dead in the Morning by Margaret Yorke

Dead in the Morning by Margaret Yorke

by | Nov 4, 2025

Margaret Yorke (1924-2012) was born Margaret Beda Larminie Nicholson in Surrey, lived in Dublin for many years and moved back to England. She was a ferocious champion of libraries, for which she won the CWA Golden Handcuffs award, given in recognition of the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert

by | Oct 31, 2025

The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert (Collins, 1945) is the 16th book about the redoubtable solicitor turned detective Arthur Crook. Published as Murder Cheats the Bride in the U.S., it is set immediately after the end of World War II with all of the characters...
A Clowder of Cat Mysteries

A Clowder of Cat Mysteries

by | Oct 28, 2025

Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, Volume 39, Number 4, Animals in Mysteries II, Winter 2023. That cats and mysteries go together like peanut butter and jelly or shoes and socks is evident by the number of mysteries written about cats and the number of...