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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert

by | Feb 19, 2021

Michael Francis Gilbert (1912 – 2006) was an English solicitor and well-known author of crime fiction. His work includes 30 novels and approximately 185 stories in 13 collections, as well as stage, radio, and television plays. He was made a Commander in the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming

Friday’s Forgotten Book: When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming

by | Feb 12, 2021

Joan Margaret Fleming (1908–1980) was a British writer, turning out children’s stories first and then moving on to crime fiction, publishing about 30 books in that field. Her novel The Deeds of Dr Deadcert (Hutchinson, 1955) was made into the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Night at the Vulcan by Ngaio Marsh

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Night at the Vulcan by Ngaio Marsh

by | Feb 5, 2021

Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) is called one of the Queens of Crime, along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She published 32 books featuring Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. Marsh started out as an actor and was deeply...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Left-Handed Death by Richard Hull

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Left-Handed Death by Richard Hull

by | Jan 22, 2021

Richard Hull was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Sampson (1896-1973), a British accountant who became a crime novelist, publishing 16 books beginning in 1934. During World War II he revived his accounting skills and became an auditor for the Admiralty. It is hard not...