Friday’s Forgotten Book: Part for a Poisoner by E. C. R. Lorac
Perhaps of all the obscure authors brought back into the public’s eye by the British Library in its Crime Classics series, I enjoy Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) the most. Her 70 plus mysteries, originally published between 1931 and 1959, are immensely readable, if...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Grave Error by Stephen Greenleaf
I continue to be surprised by the number of dedicated mystery readers who do not know the John Marshall Tanner PI novels published by Stephen Greenleaf between 1979 and 2000. I have never understood how they are so little known considering the consistently strong...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Five Bullets by Lee Thayer
Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American author who published 61 mystery novels under the name Lee Thayer, beginning with The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor (1919) and ending with Dusty Death (1966). All but one feature the private investigator Peter...