Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg

Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg

Cornelius Hirschberg (1901-1995) is another of those authors who emerge from nowhere, produce one fine mystery, and then turn their attention to other pursuits, leaving readers like me to wonder how many more good stories were left untold. Hirschberg was 63 years old...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hasty Wedding by Mignon G. Eberhart

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hasty Wedding by Mignon G. Eberhart

Thanks to the miracle of Google, I discovered this brief article from TIME magazine called “Books: Mysteries of the Month: May 30, 1938”: “Of seven average and better than average mystery stories published last month, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit:...
The Mourner by Richard Stark

The Mourner by Richard Stark

Donald Westlake (1933-2008) was an assiduous and creative author with about 100 crime fiction novels and dozens of short stories to his credit under various pen names including John B. Allan, Judson Jack Carmichael, Curt Clark, Timothy J. Culver, J. Morgan...
Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle

Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle

Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle (Pocket Books, 1990) is the first of six political thrillers released between 1990 and 1995 featuring Tom Bethany, a former member of the Olympic wrestling team and a Vietnam vet, who describes himself as a security consultant but...