Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Draycott Murder Mystery by Molly Thynne
The Draycott Murder Mystery by Mary Harriet (Molly) Thynne (1881-1950) was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1928 and reprinted by Dean Street Press in 2016 with an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. It was originally released under...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Flat Tyre in Fulham by Josephine Bell
Josephine Bell was the pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball (1897-1987), a British doctor who began writing to produce a badly needed second income after the death of her husband. She started publishing detective novels in 1936 under her pen name, using her...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Duplicate Daughter by Erle Stanley Gardner
To celebrate Erle Stanley Gardner’s 136th birthday (17 July 1889) and because other reviewers are posting their latest Gardner read, I pulled out one of my favorite Perry Mason books and re-read it. The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (Morrow, 1960) was one of three...