Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murders at Scandal House by Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a Hubin-listed author of three books published in the early 1930s. Hunt is the joint pseudonym of George Worthing Yates (1901-1975) and Charles Hunt Marshall (1901-1986). Yates was an American screenwriter and author. His early work was on...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: They Tell No Tales by Manning Coles
Manning Coles was the joint pen name used by British writers and neighbors Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965) and Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959). Between 1940 and 1958 they produced more than 20 lively spy stories featuring Thomas Elphinstone (Tommy) Hambledon,...
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....