Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Skeleton Coast Contract by Philip Atlee
James Atlee Phillips (1915-1991) was a colorful pulp fiction writer who also published under the name Philip Atlee. He worked as a journalist, traveled with overseas airlines, spent some time in the military, and had a stint in Hollywood, where he worked for John...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Mysteries of Africa edited by Eugene Schleh
Eugene Paul Anderson Schleh (1939-2007) received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University. His dissertation was entitled Post-Service Careers of African World War Two Veterans: British East and West Africa with Particular Reference to Ghana and Uganda....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: the Beacon Hill Murders by Roger Scarlett
The Beacon Hill Murders (Doubleday Doran, 1930; Coachwhip, 2017) was the first of five mysteries by Roger Scarlet, the joint pen name of Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page, who worked as editors at Houghton Mifflin before undertaking a collaborative writing career. See...