Friday’s Forgotten Book: While the Patient Slept by Mignon G. Eberhart
Mignon G. Eberhart (1899-1996) was a creative author of mysteries and romantic suspense. Her long career began in 1929 with a mystery featuring Sarah/Sally Keate, a nurse in New York, who was Eberhart’s only series character. Keate featured in seven books. The rest of...
Notice of Death by John Penn
John Penn is a joint pseudonym of Palma Harcourt (1917 – 1999) when she wrote with husband Jack H. Trotman. Harcourt wrote espionage thrillers under her own name. Under the Penn pseudonym she wrote more traditional detective stories. George...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Baited Hook by Erle Stanley GardnerÂ
The Case of the Baited Hook (Morrow, 1940) is the last appearance of Sergeant Holcomb in the Perry Mason series by Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970). Holcomb is the typical bullying cop of the 1930s pulps, more brawn than brains, and Mason ran circles around him....