Friday’s Forgotten Book: Overdue for Death by Z. H. Ross

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Overdue for Death by Z. H. Ross

Zola Helen Girdey Ross (1912 –1989) taught writing at the University of Washington and the Lake Washington schools in Kirkland, Washington. She wrote Western historicals, children’s fiction, and crime novels. Her mysteries were published under Z....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lake of Fury by Robert MacLeod

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lake of Fury by Robert MacLeod

William Knox (1928 – 1999) was a Glasgow journalist, television broadcaster, and author. He began writing crime fiction in the 1950s and published over 50 books. He released his 24 books about Colin Thane and Phil Moss, Glasgow Crime Squad officers, between 1957...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Nobody’s Perfect by Douglas Clark

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Nobody’s Perfect by Douglas Clark

The name of Douglas Clark (1919-1993) cropped up in an online classic mystery discussion group recently as an example of a more contemporary author who wrote traditional detective stories in line with Golden Age mystery parameters. I looked him up and learned that...