Friday’s Forgotten Book: Last Will and Testament by Elizabeth Ferrars
I looked at Elizabeth Ferrars’ first book about Andrew Basnett last year, which I liked enough to want to sample more of her considerable body of work. This week I read her first story about Virginia and Felix Freer, a hopelessly mismatched married couple. Virginia is...
John V. C. Wyllie and Dr. Samuel Quarshie
Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, Volume 39, Number 1 (Spring 2023). Dr. Samuel Quarshie is the amateur detective in mysteries written by John Vectis Carew Wyllie (1914-1997) in the late 1970s. The doctor was educated at McGill University in Montreal...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Abbey Court Murder by Annie Haynes
Dean Street Press has reprinted all twelve of the mysteries written by Annie Haynes (1865-1929). Haynes didn’t survive to see the Golden Age of Detection at its apex but she did help usher it in. Her second mystery was the first appearance of Inspector Furnival of...