Friday’s Forgotten Book: What a Body! by Alan Green

Friday’s Forgotten Book: What a Body! by Alan Green

In 1950 Alan Green, a partner in the Green-Brodie advertising agency, won the Edgar for best first novel. It seems to have been his only mystery. The other nominees for best debut that year were Bart Spicer, who went on to write 15 or so books in four series; Geoffrey...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon’s Day by J. J. Marric

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon’s Day by J. J. Marric

John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels. Creasey was a human writing machine, producing more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Mostly he’s known for his crime fiction, of which there are...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bath Mysteries by E. R. Punshon

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bath Mysteries by E. R. Punshon

I decided I had neglected my studies of Bobby Owen far too long, so recently I read one of the earlier books in the series by Ernest Robertson Punshon (1872-1956), an industrious Golden Age author of crime fiction, short stories, and literary criticism. Writing as E....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Outwitting Trolls by William G. Tapply

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Outwitting Trolls by William G. Tapply

This week’s forgotten book is really about a series that is too good to fade into oblivion. Before Victoria Houston wrote about fly-fishing in fictional Loon Lake, Wisconsin, and Keith McCafferty gave us Sean Stranahan, a fly fisherman and private investigator in...