Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Venner Crime by John Rhode
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: Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers! by Ellis Peters
Everyone knows Ellis Peters as the creator of Brother Cadfael, that wise and worldly inmate of the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, who appeared in 21 historical mysteries set between 1137 and 1145. The monastery was inevitably pulled into the civil war that raged...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Then There Were Three by Geoffrey Homes
Geoffrey Homes was the pen name of Daniel Mainwaring (1902 –1977), an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in California, where he attended Fresno University. He held various jobs, including migrant fruit picker, private investigator and reporter,...