Friday’s Forgotten Book: Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers! by Ellis Peters
Everyone knows Ellis Peters as the creator of Brother Cadfael, that wise and worldly inmate of the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, who appeared in 21 historical mysteries set between 1137 and 1145. The monastery was inevitably pulled into the civil war that raged...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Then There Were Three by Geoffrey Homes
Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring (1902 –1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, where he attended Fresno University. He held various jobs, including migrant fruit picker, private investigator and reporter,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Guilt Is Plain / The Black Envelope by David Frome
Zenith Jones Brown (1898 – 1983) was an American crime fiction writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. Brown began writing as David Frome in 1929 while living in England. She used...