Marco Page was the pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz (1909-1968), an American playwright, producer, screenwriter, and book and music reviewer. He was mostly known for his movie scripts, writing over-the-top adventures for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye, among...
Among the dozens of books in my recently acquired collection of Detective Book Club anthologies are a few stories by Clifford Knight, about whom little has been written. Knight (1886-1963) was an American author who contributed to the pulp magazines and who invented...
Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896 – 1961) was an English writer of children’s pony books and adult detective novels. She belonged to a family of prolific writers and all four of her children became writers. Her first mystery was published in 1939; it featured...
Anthony Wynne was the pseudonym of Robert McNair Wilson (1882-1963), an English physician and author. Wilson was Medical Correspondent for the Times from 1914 to 1942. He is the creator of amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey, an early psychologist and consultant to Scotland...
Perhaps of all the obscure authors brought back into the public’s eye by the British Library in its Crime Classics series, I enjoy Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) the most. Her 70 plus mysteries, originally published between 1931 and 1959, are immensely readable, if...
