Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Crime, the Place, and the Girl by Douglas & Dorothy Stapleton
Douglas Stapleton (1907-1972) and his wife Dorothy Tucker Aden Stapleton (1917-1970) collaborated on radio shows, short stories, a Broadway play, and mysteries. I have been unable to locate a bibliography but The Corpse Is Indignant (Five-Star Mysteries, New York,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Without a Trace by Malcolm Forsythe
Malcolm Hutton (1921-??) was an English career civil servant, working for the Department of Civil Defence and running the Joint Computer Organisation of the Home Office and the London Metropolitan Police. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1946 and became a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Here Comes the Toff by John Creasey
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred books using some twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Of his many series characters, the Toff, the sobriquet of the Honorable Richard Rollison,...