Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Place for Murder by Emma Lathen
Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, they decided to undertake mystery...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in Harley Street by John Rhode
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet, and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, published between 1925 and 1961....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Post after Post-Mortem by E. C. R. Lorac
The British Library is steadily re-releasing the catalog of E. C. R. Lorac, title by title. Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac. Nearly all of the Lorac titles, about 45 of them, feature...