Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes

Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes

The female private investigator, as opposed to the amateur sleuth, has been a relatively rare occurrence in crime fiction but she has popped up here and there. Loveday Brooke is an early “lady detective” created by Catherine Louisa Pirkis in 1894. Canadian...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland

Among the authors who tantalized readers with a few good mysteries and then disappeared is Olive Seers Shimwell (1901-1962) who published three mysteries under the name Harriet Rutland. She produced Knock, Murderer, Knock (Skeffington & Son, 1938); Bleeding Hooks...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin

Celia Fremlin (1914–2009) was a British graduate of Oxford, Somerville College, same as Dorothy L. Sayers. She published two sociological books about the effects of the war on everyday people before turning to psychological thrillers that focused on domestic suspense....
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...