Friday’s Forgotten Book: Accident by Design by E. C. R. Lorac

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Accident by Design by E. C. R. Lorac

Accident by Design (Collins, 1950) by E. C. R. Lorac is the 34th appearance of Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald. Even with more than 45 books to her credit by this time, Lorac (real name Edith Rivett) demonstrates she’s not out of ideas. What’s left of...
Copper Gold by Pauline Glen Winslow

Copper Gold by Pauline Glen Winslow

The backs of dust jackets on older books are often filled with blurbs about the book in hand or the author’s earlier works but sometimes, especially the dust jackets of first editions or debut works, advertise the publisher’s other authors in that genre. It’s a great...
And Did Murder Him by Peter Turnbull

And Did Murder Him by Peter Turnbull

Peter Turnbull used his certificate in social work in Glasgow for years before returning to Yorkshire, where he was born, to take up full-time writing. His crime fiction series includes one set in Yorkshire, one set in London, and one set in Glasgow. His Glasgow books...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: X v. REX by Philip Macdonald

Friday’s Forgotten Book: X v. REX by Philip Macdonald

Philip Macdonald (1900-1980) was a British writer of more than 30 novels, dozens of short stories, and radio, television, and film scripts, nearly all of them in the crime fiction genre. He wrote under his name and as Oliver Fleming, Anthony Lawless, Martin Porlock,...