Everyone knows Ellis Peters as the creator of Brother Cadfael, that wise and worldly inmate of the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, who appeared in 21 historical mysteries set between 1137 and 1145. The monastery was inevitably pulled into the civil war that raged...
Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring (1902 –1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, where he attended Fresno University. He held various jobs, including migrant fruit picker, private investigator and reporter,...
Zenith Jones Brown (1898 – 1983) was an American crime fiction writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. Brown began writing as David Frome in 1929 while living in England. She used...
Arthur Wilson Tucker (1914 –2006) was an American author of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker. Tucker was also a prominent member of science fiction fandom, who wrote extensively for fanzines under the...
Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, volume 39, number 2, Summer 2023 Doris Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull (1878-1961) wrote under the name Patricia Wentworth. Her first book about Miss Maud Silver, a former governess turned successful private investigator, was...
