Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Suicide Murders by Howard Engel
Howard Engel (1931-2019) wrote 14 books about Benny Cooperman, an unconventional private investigator in Grantham, Ontario, Canada. Nine of them were published between 1980 and 1996 during the late 20th century flood of PI novels. Three more were published in the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Last Escape by E. C. R. Lorac
By now anyone who is paying attention to the explosive revival of vintage detective fiction is familiar with the name E. C. R. Lorac, the pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958). Rivett published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Something Wicked by E. X. Ferrars
Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown (1907-1995) wrote several novels under that name before adopting the pseudonym Elizabeth Ferrars, which became E. X. Ferrars in the United States. Her first mystery was published in 1940, the initial outing of Toby Dyke, a journalist in...