Friday’s Forgotten Book: Truth Comes Limping by J. J. Connington
J. J. Connington was a pseudonym for Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947), a Scot educated in Glasgow, Germany, and London. Stewart had a long career as a university lecturer and professor in Chemistry at Glasgow and Belfast. He wrote two dozen mysteries between...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Treasure by Post by David Williams
David Stuart Williams (1926-2003) was a successful advertising executive who began dabbling in crime fiction as a hobby before illness forced his retirement and he took up writing full time. He published 23 detective novels between 1976 and 2003, 6 about DCI...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley
Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley (The Stratford Company, 1933; Coachwhip Publications, 2018) was the only mystery published by Mary Frances Burks (1907-1970). Burks was a Tennessee native, graduating from Vanderbilt University and marrying historian and...