Friday’s Forgotten Book: Unholy Dying by R. T. Campbell
Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914–1978) was a Scottish poet, artist, and novelist. (Ruthven is pronounced ‘riven’.) During World War II he wrote about a dozen detective novels. He used a pseudonym at the advice of Cecil Day Lewis, who also had a pen name...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Death Syndicate by Judson P. Philips
Judson Philips, also writing as Hugh Pentecost and Philip Owen, started his literary career with short stories for pulp magazines. His first book about Inspector Luke Bradley, Cancelled in Red(Dodd Mead, 1939), won the Red Badge Prize and his novelist career began. He...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Style by Emma Lou Fetta
Emma Lou Fetta (1898-1975) was a native Hoosier, born in Richmond, Indiana, where she attended Earlham College, a Quaker educational institution founded in 1847. She became a journalist, a foreign correspondent, and the press officer for The Fashion Group, a nonprofit...