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...
Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896 – 1961) was an English writer of children’s pony books and adult detective novels. She belonged to a family of prolific writers and all four of her children became writers. Her first mystery was published in 1939; it featured...
Anthony Wynne was the pseudonym of Robert McNair Wilson (1882-1963), an English physician and author. Wilson was Medical Correspondent for the Times from 1914 to 1942. He is the creator of amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey, an early psychologist and consultant to Scotland...
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...
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...
