Favorite Books of 2024
Reading time was hard to come by this year but I still managed to find a few hours here and there every week. November and December were much quieter and I raced through more than two dozen books, all of them good to very good. I will be reviewing some of them in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Flair for Murder by Frances & Richard Lockridge
Frances Davis Lockridge (1896-1963) and Richard Lockridge (1899-1982) were journalists known mostly for their Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries. The 26 novels about the Norths spun off a Broadway play, a motion picture, and several radio and television series. The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Lepers’ Hollow by George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a Manchester bank manager as well as a freelance journalist. He published 57 popular classic police procedurals featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard between 1941 and 1980. He also...