Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson
Colin Watson (1920–1983) was an English journalist and author of a successful detective series set in the prosperous market and port town of Flaxborough in East Anglia. Flaxborough is a fictionalized version of the town of Boston in Lincolnshire where Watson was a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: It’s Her Own Funeral by Carol Carnac
Perhaps of all the obscure authors brought back into the public’s eye by the British Library in its Crime Classics series, I enjoy the work of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) the most. Her 70 plus mysteries, originally published between 1931 and 1959, are immensely...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Swan Song by Edmund Crispin
Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) who wrote crime fiction under the name Edmund Crispin and composed music for films under his real name is hardly a forgotten author. His literary output was small compared to some of his contemporaries, only nine novels and two...