Friday’s Forgotten Book: Holiday Homicide by Rufus King

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Holiday Homicide by Rufus King

Rufus Frederick King (1893-1966) was an American crime fiction author. He wrote multiple series: the earliest with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective akin to Philo Vance; 11 novels about New York police Lieutenant Valcour from 1928 to 1939; another with...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers

The Black Camel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1929) by Earl Derr Biggers is the fourth of six mysteries Biggers wrote about Honolulu police officer Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American with eleven Americanized children. Inspector Chan’s appearances in a series of not...