Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Last Escape by E. C. R. Lorac

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Last Escape by E. C. R. Lorac

By now anyone who is paying attention to the explosive revival of vintage detective fiction is familiar with the name E. C. R. Lorac, the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958). Rivett published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Something Wicked by E. X. Ferrars

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Something Wicked by E. X. Ferrars

Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown (1907-1995) wrote several novels under that name before adopting the pseudonym Elizabeth Ferrars, which became E. X. Ferrars in the United States. Her first mystery was published in 1940, the initial outing of Toby Dyke, a journalist in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Killed by Scandal by Simon Nash

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Killed by Scandal by Simon Nash

Simon Nash was the pseudonym used by Raymond Chapman (1924-2013), Professor of English at London University and an Anglican priest. He published five mysteries with Adam Ludlow, also a Professor of English at London University, as an amateur detective who works with...