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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Renowned Be Thy Grave or the Murderous Miss Mooney by P. M. Carlson
Patricia Carlson taught psychology and statistics at Cornell University and turned some of her experience into her Maggie Ryan mysteries. Maggie is married to an actor and she teaches statistics at the university level in between amateur sleuthing. Carlson also wrote...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Gardenia by Elliot Paul
Elliot Harold Paul (1891-1958) was an American journalist and author. After serving in the Army he began writing books and published three by 1925 when he joined the expatriate American colony in Paris, France. He worked on newspapers and journals and wrote novels in...