Friday’s Forgotten Book: Shackles by Bill Pronzini

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Shackles by Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini is a spectacularly high-volume author, having written more than 300 short stories and more than 100 novels. He’s also compiled a large number of anthologies of mystery, science fiction, and Western short fiction. But he’s mostly known as a writer of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow

Friday’s Forgotten Book: One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow

I was fortunate enough to see the Summer of Soul documentary released earlier this year, restored footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and interviews with both singers and attendees. I had forgotten about some of the bands: Sly and the Family Stone in person...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Case in the Clinic by E. C. R. Lorac

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Case in the Clinic by E. C. R. Lorac

Between 1931 and 1959 Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac. Nearly all of the E.C.R. Lorac titles, about 45 of them, feature Chief Inspector Robert MacDonald, a Scot on...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

Alan Melville (1910-1983) was a man of many parts, not least of which was an author. Weekend at Thrackley (Skeffington, 1934; reprinted by the British Library, 2018) was his debut mystery. In the introduction to the British Library’s release of this book, Martin...