Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) was an American author who published 61 mystery novels under the name Lee Thayer, beginning with The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor (1919) and ending with Dusty Death (1966). All but one feature the private investigator Peter...
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining beer-drinking lawyer whose ethics do not bear scrutiny. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert between 1936...
Christianna Brand was the pseudonym of Mary Christianna Lewis (1907-1985), who also wrote as China Thomson, Annabel Jones, Mary Roland, and Mary Ann Ashe. She wrote mysteries, fantasy, short stories, and children’s books. The 2005 film Nanny McPhee is based on the...
About a year ago I talked about one of the last Inspector Treadgold mysteries by Anthony Weymouth, the pseudonym of Ivo Geikie Cobb (1887-1953), a London physician and author. Cobb wrote a number of books on clinical topics and seven detective novels about Inspector...
Michael Francis Gilbert (1912–2006) was an English solicitor and well-known author of crime fiction. His legal career was interrupted by World War II, when he served with the British Army in north Africa and in Italy. His work includes more than 30 novels and 13...
