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...
C.H.B. (Clifford Henry Benn) Kitchin (1895-1967) was a man of many talents. He became a solicitor in 1924, he was a farmer and a schoolmaster, and he made a good deal of money playing the stock market. He had eclectic interests, including botany, linguistics, music,...
Milton M Raison (1903-1982) was an American writer better known for his radio, television, and film scripts than his books, although his first book was adapted for the big screen. For more about his career in movies, see his IMDb profile here:...
