Friday’s Forgotten Book: Five-Ring Circus by Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary (1917-2010) was an Australian writer, publishing about 50 novels in a range of genres. A number of them were adapted for film and television. His first book about Scobie Malone, a Sydney homicide inspector, appeared in 1966 and evolved into a series of 20...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen Leigh
The Incredible Crime (Herbert Jenkins, 1931; Poisoned Pen Press, 2017) by Lois Austen Leigh (1883-1968) was the first of four mysteries written by the great-great niece of Jane Austen. All four were published during the 1930s in what seems to have been small print...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
After reading another Golden Age mystery set at a university recently, I re-visited Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay (1894-1979). Originally published in 1935 by Skeffington & Sons, the same year as Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers, also set at Oxford,...