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...
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
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...