Miss Silver: Baby Bootees and Murder

Miss Silver: Baby Bootees and Murder

Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, volume 39, number 2, Summer 2023 Doris Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull (1878-1961) wrote under the name Patricia Wentworth. Her first book about Miss Maud Silver, a former governess turned successful private investigator, was...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Gardenia by Elliot Paul

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Gardenia by Elliot Paul

Elliot Harold Paul (1891-1958) was an American journalist and author. After serving in the Army he began writing books and published three by 1925 when he joined the expatriate American colony in Paris, France. He worked on newspapers and journals and wrote novels in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fair Warning by Mignon G. Eberhart

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fair Warning by Mignon G. Eberhart

Mignon G. Eberhart, 1899-1996, was a prolific author of mysteries and romantic suspense. Her long career began in 1929 with a mystery featuring Sara/Sally Keate, a nurse in New York, who was Eberhart’s only series character. Keate featured in seven books. The rest of...