Friday’s Forgotten Book: Something Wicked by E. X. Ferrars

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Something Wicked by E. X. Ferrars

Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown (1907-1995) wrote several novels under that name before adopting the pseudonym Elizabeth Ferrars, which became E. X. Ferrars in the United States. Her first mystery was published in 1940, the initial outing of Toby Dyke, a journalist in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Killed by Scandal by Simon Nash

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Killed by Scandal by Simon Nash

Simon Nash was the pseudonym used by Raymond Chapman (1924-2013), Professor of English at London University and an Anglican priest. He published five mysteries with Adam Ludlow, also a Professor of English at London University, as an amateur detective who works with...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Our Second Murder by Torrey Chanslor

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Our Second Murder by Torrey Chanslor

Torrey Chanslor was the pen name of Marjorie Torrey (1899-195?), a well-known illustrator of children’s books in the mid-1900s. Torrey received two Caldecott Honors for her work in 1946 and 1947. She also wrote a few books for children and two adult mysteries, the...