Friday’s Forgotten Book: Unholy Dying by R. T. Campbell

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: Murder in Style by Emma Lou Fetta

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...
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...