Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining lawyer whose ethics do not bear scrutiny. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert. Malleson also used the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree (Gollancz, 1968) is the second book by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (1900-1970) in his mystery series about a Cambridge don named Dr. R. V. Davie. Victor Vaughan Reynolds Geraint Clinton Clinton-Baddeley was a British playwright,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Lyttleton Case by R. A. V. Morris
Ronald Arthur Vennor Morris (1877-1943) was born in Wales but mostly lived in England, working in London before moving to Hove in Sussex. The Lyttleton Case (Collins, 1922) is his only work of fiction. It was selected for the Detective Story Club, the forerunner of...