Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fatality in Fleet Street by Christopher St. John Sprigg
Christopher St John Sprigg (1907- 1937) was an English writer of poetry, plays, short stories, detective novels, and aeronautics textbooks. In his mid-20s he became fascinated by Marxism and his writing from then on reflected this new interest. When the Spanish Civil...
Favorite Books of 2022
The running list of titles I kept during 2022 shows I attempted 146 books. I set 10 aside unfinished and completed the remaining 136 and possibly a few that didn’t get recorded. As I scanned the titles, the following are the ones that stood out. All but one were...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer
Algernon Vernon Mills (1905-1953) only wrote a few books, using the name Rupert Latimer. Murder After Christmas (MacDonald & Co., 1944; Poisoned Pen Press, 2022), a look at Christmas in England midpoint through the second World War, seems to be his last. Crime...