Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen Leigh
The Incredible Crime (Herbert Jenkins, 1931; Poisoned Pen Press, 2017) by Lois Austen Leigh (1883-1968) was the first of four mysteries written by the great-great niece of Jane Austen. All four were published during the 1930s in what seems to have been small print...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
After reading another Golden Age mystery set at a university recently, I re-visited Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay (1894-1979). Originally published in 1935 by Skeffington & Sons, the same year as Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers, also set at Oxford,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dead for a Ducat by Simon Shaw
Simon Shaw is an actor turned author and journalist. After a dozen or so years in theater, he released his first book about Philip Fletcher, an aging thespian convinced of his consummate acting prowess and disgusted with producers that overlook him. He helped his...