Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon and the Young Toughs by John Creasey
Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories by John Creasey (1908-1973) writing as J. J. Marric (Crippen & Landru, 2022) is most welcome to this George Gideon fan. I discovered the series in the late 1960s and raced through them, seizing the new ones off the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Triple Play by Elizabeth Gunn
I was sad to learn this week that Elizabeth Gunn, author of one of my all-time favorite mystery series, died on 30 August at the age of 95. Gunn led an eventful life, managing an inn with her husband in Montana and then traveling extensively. She had a private pilot’s...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Defense Does Not Rest by Edna Sherry
Stark House kindly sent me an advance copy of their new reprint of two books by Edna Sherry (1885–1967), to be released in October. After writing serials and short stories for pulp magazines and collaborating on a play, Sherry turned to novels. Her first book Sudden...