Friday’s Forgotten Book: Grave Error by Stephen Greenleaf
I continue to be surprised by the number of dedicated mystery readers who do not know the John Marshall Tanner PI novels published by Stephen Greenleaf between 1979 and 2000. I have never understood how they are so little known considering the consistently strong...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Five Bullets by Lee Thayer
Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American author who published 61 mystery novels under the name Lee Thayer, beginning with The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor (1919) and ending with Dusty Death (1966). All but one feature the private investigator Peter...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lift Up the Lid by Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining beer-drinking lawyer whose ethics do not bear scrutiny. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert between 1936...