Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Anxious Conspirator by Michael Underwood
Michael Underwood was the pseudonym of John Michael Evelyn (1916-1992), a British civil servant and author. Evelyn was called to the Bar in 1939, then served in the British Army during the war. Afterwards he entered the Civil Service and began writing crime...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining lawyer whose ethics do not bear scrutiny. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert. Malleson also used the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree (Gollancz, 1968) is the second book by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (1900-1970) in his mystery series about a Cambridge don named Dr. R. V. Davie. Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint Clinton Clinton-Baddeley was a British playwright,...