After reading about the gentlemen’s club in Keep It Quiet by Richard Hull earlier this year (https://happinessisabook.com/fridays-forgotten-book-keep-it-quiet-by-richard-hull/), I checked for other mysteries in the same setting. Of course there is The Unpleasantness...
The Summer of the Danes (Mysterious Press, 1991) is the eighteenth book in the historical mystery series about Brother Cadfael, soldier turned herbalist and monk, written by Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters. It is one of the last books about the Welsh Benedictine brother...
Kay Cleaver Strahan (1888-1941) was an American author who lived in Portland, Oregon. In 1918 she began contributing short stories to popular magazines. She was also a mystery novelist; her bibliography includes: Peggy Mary (1915), Something That Begins with...
John Foster Straker (1904-1987) was an English author born in Kent and who served in World War II. During the war with time on his hands he began writing mysteries. He first published seven mysteries with Detective-Inspector Richard Aloysius Pitt from 1954 to 1961,...
Robert “Robin” Forsythe (1879-1937) began writing short stories and poetry as a teenager. In middle age after a stint in prison he took up mystery writing, publishing five mysteries with amateur sleuth and landscape painter Algernon/Anthony Vereker as the amateur...
