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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Farmhouse by Helen Reilly

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Farmhouse by Helen Reilly

by | May 9, 2025

Helen Reilly (1891-1962) was an American novelist. She was born Helen Kieran and grew up in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, also wrote a mystery, and two of her daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, were mystery...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Root of Evil by Eaton K. Goldthwaite

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Root of Evil by Eaton K. Goldthwaite

by | May 2, 2025

Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite was an American author (1907-1994) whose series character was police Lieutenant Joseph Dickerson. His papers are held at Boston University, https://archivesspace.bu.edu/repositories/9/resources/1269. The description of the repository on BU’s...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Thirsty Evil by Gerald Verner

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Thirsty Evil by Gerald Verner

by | Apr 25, 2025

Gerald Verner was one of the many pen names used by John Robert Stuart Pringle (1897-1980). Other pseudonyms were Thane Leslie, Derwent Steele, Donald Stuart, and Nigel Vane. Donald Stuart was the name he used initially, writing 44 stories for the Sexton Blake Library...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Creeping Venom by Sheila Pim

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Creeping Venom by Sheila Pim

by | Apr 18, 2025

Sheila Pim (1909–1995) was an Irish novelist and horticulturalist. She wrote four witty crime novels and three serious novels along with a biography of Irish botanist Augustine Henry. She also was an enthusiastic cultivator of flowers and vegetables and wrote...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in High Place by R. B. Dominic

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in High Place by R. B. Dominic

by | Apr 11, 2025

Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart (1929-?) met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, their shared appreciation...