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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon’s Day by J. J. Marric

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Gideon’s Day by J. J. Marric

John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels. Creasey was a human writing machine, producing more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Mostly he’s known for his crime fiction, of which there are...