Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Prime Minister’s Pencil by Cecil Waye
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, published between 1925 and 1961. He also wrote short stories, stand-alone novels,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Keep It Quiet by Richard Hull
Richard Hull was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973), a British accountant who became a crime novelist, publishing 16 books beginning in 1934. During World War II he revived his accounting skills and became an auditor for the Admiralty. His first book,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The McCone Files & McCone and Friends by Marcia Muller
This week Happiness Is a Book is observing the 30th year of Crippen & Landru, a well-known small press that specializes in single author collections of short crime fiction. Founded in 1994 by Edgar nominee Doug Greene, C&L continues today with Jeff Marks in...