Helga’s Web by Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary (1917-2010) was an Australian writer, publishing about 50 novels in a range of genres. A number of them were adapted for film and television. His most famous book is The Sundowners (Werner Laurie, 1952 UK; Scribners, 1952 US), which describes a year in the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The D. A. Breaks a Seal by Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)was a California attorney who started writing pulp fiction in the 1920s so that he could leave his law career. The general public knows him best as the creator of Perry Mason courtroom dramas but under the name of A. A. Fair he wrote a...
Too Late to Die by Bill Crider
Bill Crider (1941-2018) lived in Texas all of his life. He taught college English to earn a living but mostly he read and wrote crime fiction. His most well-known work featured Sheriff Dan Rhodes who served and protected the citizens of Blacklin County, Texas, in 25...