Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Ginger Cat Mystery by Robin Forsythe
Robert “Robin” Forsythe (1879-1937) began writing short stories and poetry as a teenager. In middle age after a stint in prison he took up mystery writing, publishing five mysteries with amateur sleuth and landscape painter Algernon/Anthony Vereker. The fourth one was...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lady Killer by George Harmon Coxe
George Harmon Coxe (1901-1984) was an American journalist turned crime fiction author of the hard-boiled school. He began writing for the mystery pulp magazines early and was earning enough to focus full time on them by the 1930s. He was a regular contributor to the...
Looking Back at 2021
When I reviewed the list of books I completed in 2021, these are the titles that remain as distinctly memorable reads after multiple attempts to winnow. They are evenly divided between men and women writers. About two-thirds were published in this century and the...