Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
Lady Catherine Manning, wife of career British civil servant Sir David Manning, might have been satisfied with the demands of traveling with her husband all over the world. But she led another life writing crime fiction under the name Elizabeth Ironside. Her first...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bohemian Connection by Susan Dunlap
Macavity and Anthony award winner Susan Dunlap is perhaps best known for her first mystery series, one of the early portrayals of women as law enforcement professionals instead of amateur sleuths. Jill Smith, a homicide detective, appeared in 10 novels between 1981...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Cancelled in Red by Hugh Pentecost
Judson Pentecost Philips (1903-1989) started his literary career writing short stories for pulp magazines. His first book about Inspector Luke Bradley, Cancelled in Red (Dodd Mead, 1939), won the $1,000 Red Badge Prize and the $10,000 prize for the Dodd Mead Mystery...