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Where There’s a Will by Anne Burton

Where There’s a Will by Anne Burton

by | Aug 26, 2025

British author Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd (1922-1985) was born and educated in Yorkshire, England. During World War II she worked in a bank and in a solicitor’s office. She married after the war and with her husband raised pigs for a few years. (Anyone wondering about the...
Advertise for Treasure by David Williams

Advertise for Treasure by David Williams

by | Aug 19, 2025

David Williams (1926-2003) was an English author who wrote two mystery series, one about London-based investment banker Mark Treasure, Chief Executive of Greenwood, Phipps, and the other about Welsh Inspector Merlin Parry. St. Martin’s Press published some of the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Long Shadows by Carol Carnac

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Long Shadows by Carol Carnac

by | Aug 8, 2025

A well-read copy of the last book Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) wrote under the name Carol Carnac came my way recently. Its price, modest relative to better preserved copies, made its acquisition a given, despite my goal to stop buying books. (Ha ha) Long Shadows...