Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Desert Lake Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan
Kay Cleaver Strahan (1888-1941) was an American author who lived in Portland, Oregon. In 1918 she began contributing short stories to popular magazines. She was also a mystery novelist; her bibliography includes: Peggy Mary (1915), Something That Begins with...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Postman’s Knock by J. F. Straker
John Foster Straker (1904-1987) was an English author born in Kent and who served in World War II. During the war with time on his hands he began writing mysteries. He first published seven mysteries with Detective-Inspector Richard Aloysius Pitt from 1954 to 1961,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Polo Ground Mystery by Robin Forsythe
Robert “Robin” Forsythe (1879-1937) began writing short stories and poetry as a teenager. In middle age after a stint in prison he took up mystery writing, publishing five mysteries with amateur sleuth and landscape painter Algernon/Anthony Vereker as the amateur...