Friday’s Forgotten Book: the Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble
Leonard Reginald Gribble (1908-1985) was an incredibly prolific English writer, beginning in his twenties. Gribble also wrote as Sterry Browning, James Gannett, Leo Grex, Louis Grey, Piers Marlowe, Dexter Muir, Landon Grant, and Bruce Sanders. He wrote mysteries,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Rainy City by Earl Emerson
Earl W. Emerson was a firefighter in Seattle for over 32 years. He parlayed his law enforcement experience into crime fiction, winning the 1986 Shamus Award for best private eye novel for Poverty Bay (Avon Books, 1985), which was also shortlisted for the Anthony Award...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes
The female private investigator, as opposed to the amateur sleuth, has been a relatively rare occurrence in crime fiction but she has popped up here and there. Loveday Brooke is an early “lady detective” created by Catherine Louisa Pirkis in 1894. Canadian...