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: 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...