Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Beats the Band by Ida Shurman

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: Fen Country by Edmund Crispin

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fen Country by Edmund Crispin

Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) who wrote crime fiction under the name Edmund Crispin and composed music under his real name is hardly a forgotten author. His literary output was small compared to some of his contemporaries, only nine novels and two volumes of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Death to Remember by Roger Ormerod

Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Death to Remember by Roger Ormerod

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was an inventive and prolific author of crime fiction. After a career in multiple civil service positions, he took up writing and published nearly 50 books between 1974 and 1999. That’s almost two books a year. His series characters were...