Friday’s Forgotten Book: Go Down, Death by Sue Brown Hays
Sue Brown Hays (1905-?) was the descendant of several generations of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton planters. Go Down, Death, which appears to be her only book, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1946 and by Hammond, Hammond & Company in 1948....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Casual Slaughters by James Quince
James Quince was the pseudonym used by James Reginald Spittal (1876-1951), an English clergyman who wrote three novels in the 1930s and then went on to other pursuits. As has been noted, it is a loss for crime fiction readers that he didn’t continue writing. Based on...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Error of the Moon by Sara Woods
Sara Woods took her barrister protagonist Antony Maitland out of the courtroom for his fourth adventure, Error of the Moon (Collins Crime Club, 1963; Dean Street Press, 2024). Considering the state of geopolitics in the early 1960s, when the Cuban Missile Crisis...