Vintage Hollywood Crime

Vintage Hollywood Crime

Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2024 Crime will occur in any field that generates large amounts of money, as Peter King had his Gourmet Detective explain in one of his mysteries about the restaurant industry. Motion...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dangerous Sea by David Roberts

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dangerous Sea by David Roberts

I don’t know that these books are forgotten as much as no one seems to have heard of them to begin with. After working as an editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O’Mara Books for several years, David Roberts became a full-time...
Where There’s a Will by Anne Burton

Where There’s a Will by Anne Burton

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...