She Shall Have Murder by Delano Ames introduces Jane Hamish and Dagobert Brown in a post-war gem first published in 1948 and reprinted by Rue Morgue Press in 2008. Ames released twelve amusing mysteries featuring the pair between 1948 and 1959. Tom and Enid Schantz...
The first and third books in the Captain Heimrich police procedural series by Richard and Frances Lockridge are hard to find. The series consists of 24 books released between 1947 and 1977. Heimrich is part of the New York State Police Criminal Investigation Division,...
Marco Page was the pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz (1909-1968), an American playwright, producer, screenwriter, and book and music reviewer. He was mostly known for his movie scripts, writing over-the-top adventures for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye, among...
Among the dozens of books in my recently acquired collection of Detective Book Club anthologies are a few stories by Clifford Knight, about whom little has been written. Knight (1886-1963) was an American author who contributed to the pulp magazines and who invented...
Joanna Maxwell Cannan (1896 – 1961) was an English writer of children’s pony books and adult detective novels. She belonged to a family of prolific writers and all four of her children became writers. Her first mystery was published in 1939; it featured...
