Death of an Old Girl by Elizabeth Lemarchand
Elizabeth Lemarchand (1906-2000) was a teacher in girls’ schools, becoming headmistress before her early retirement due to illness. She took up writing short stories and then detective novels, basing her style on the Golden Age mysteries she admired. She published 17...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Pattern for Murder by Ione Sandberg Shriber
Elaine Mathilda Sandberg was born in Emeigh Run, Pennsylvania, on November 28, 1911, and relocated with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1919. She died in Deerfield Beach, Florida, on 7 January 1987. See her full obituary here:...
The Goldfish Bowl by Laurence Gough
In my search for Canadian crime fiction writers, I discovered Laurence Gough. Gough wrote 13 books in his series about Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker. The first title is The Goldfish Bowl (St. Martin’s Press, 1987), which won the Arthur...