Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Guilt Is Plain / The Black Envelope by David Frome
Zenith Jones Brown (1898 – 1983) was an American crime fiction writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms David Frome, Leslie Ford, and Brenda Conrad. Brown began writing as David Frome in 1929 while living in England. She used...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Chinese Doll by Wilson Tucker
Arthur Wilson Tucker (1914 –2006) was an American author of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker. Tucker was also a prominent member of science fiction fandom, who wrote extensively for fanzines under the...
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...