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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Overdue for Death by Z. H. Ross

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Overdue for Death by Z. H. Ross

by | Aug 12, 2022

Zola Helen Girdey Ross (1912 –1989) taught writing at the University of Washington and the Lake Washington schools in Kirkland, Washington. She wrote Western historicals, children’s fiction, and crime novels. Her mysteries were published under Z....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lake of Fury by Robert MacLeod

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lake of Fury by Robert MacLeod

by | Aug 5, 2022

William Knox (1928 – 1999) was a Glasgow journalist, television broadcaster, and author. He began writing crime fiction in the 1950s and published over 50 books. He released his 24 books about Colin Thane and Phil Moss, Glasgow Crime Squad officers, between 1957...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Nobody’s Perfect by Douglas Clark

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Nobody’s Perfect by Douglas Clark

by | Jul 29, 2022

The name of Douglas Clark (1919-1993) cropped up in an online classic mystery discussion group recently as an example of a more contemporary author who wrote traditional detective stories in line with Golden Age mystery parameters. I looked him up and learned that...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Blue by Clifford Witting

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Blue by Clifford Witting

by | Jul 15, 2022

Clifford Witting (1907-1968) was an English crime fiction writer. He worked as a clerk in Lloyds Bank from 1924 to 1942 and served in the Royal Artillery and the Ordinance Corps during World War II. His experiences then informed some of the 16 mysteries that he...