Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death of an Eloquent Man by Charlotte Murray Russell
Charlotte Murray Russell (1899-1992) published a dozen mysteries about Jane Amanda Edwards between 1935 and 1951. She converted her hometown of Rock Island, Illinois, into the fictional Rockport where Edwards lived. Russell wrote four mysteries with Police Chief Homer...
The Indigo Necklace by Frances Crane
Frances Kirkwood Crane (1896-1981) wrote 26 mysteries between 1941 and 1965 with private investigator Pat Abbott and his wife Jean in the crime-solving role. The Abbotts were based in San Francisco but travelled constantly so the stories are set in a range of locales....
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...