Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Templeton Case by Victor L. Whitechurch
Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) took holy orders after university and had a long career in the church. He wrote 24 books, including an autobiography. He developed an interest in mysteries, first writing short stories featuring a railway detective named...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Beats the Band by Ida Shurman
Death Beats the Band (Phoenix Press Publishers, 1943; Coachwhip, 2020) seems to have been the only book that Ida Shurman (1916-1997) wrote. She was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and spent most of her career working in the sociology field with her husband...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth
A recent comment on the Golden Age Detection Facebook group sent me back to Patricia Wentworth and Miss Silver this week. I picked up The Brading Collection (Hodder & Stoughton, 1950), the 18th in Miss Silver’s adventures, later published as Mr. Brading’s...