Looking Back at 2021
When I reviewed the list of books I completed in 2021, these are the titles that remain as distinctly memorable reads after multiple attempts to winnow. They are evenly divided between men and women writers. About two-thirds were published in this century and the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dishonest Murderer by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Frances Davis Lockridge (1896-1963) and Richard Lockridge (1899-1982) were journalists known mostly for their Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries. Some two dozen books about publisher Jerry North and his wife Pam with their good friend Lt. Bill Weigand of the New York City...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime for Christmas by Lesley Egan
Barbara Elizabeth Linington (1921-1988) was an inexhaustible American author who wrote under the names Elizabeth Linington, Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O’Neill, and Dell Shannon. She initially wrote radio and stage dramas and then turned to historical...