Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Place for Murder by Emma Lathen

Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Place for Murder by Emma Lathen

Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, they decided to undertake mystery...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in Harley Street by John Rhode

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in Harley Street by John Rhode

Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet, and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, published between 1925 and 1961....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Texas by Ada E. Lingo

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Texas by Ada E. Lingo

Murder in Texas by Ada Emma Lingo (Houghton Mifflin, 1935; Coachwhip, 2016) is another of those books that stands alone as its creator’s known output. Ada Lingo started as a journalist writing up social events for newspapers and then earned a medical degree which kept...