Friday’s Forgotten Book: Spin Your Web, Lady! by Richard and Frances Lockridge
The first and third books in the Captain Heimrich police procedural series by Richard and Frances Lockridge are hard to find. The series consists of 24 books released between 1947 and 1977. Heimrich is part of the New York State Police Criminal Investigation Division,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Shadowy Third by Marco Page
Marco Page was the pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz (1909-1968), an American playwright, producer, screenwriter, and book and music reviewer. He was mostly known for his movie scripts, writing over-the-top adventures for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye, among...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Affair of the Dead Stranger by Clifford Knight
Among the dozens of books in my recently acquired collection of Detective Book Club anthologies are a few stories by Clifford Knight, about whom little has been written. Knight (1886-1963) was an American author who contributed to the pulp magazines and who invented...