Friday’s Forgotten Book: Robbed Blind by Roy Hart

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Robbed Blind by Roy Hart

Between 1987 and 1994 Roy Hart, a British avionics engineer, wrote nine police procedurals fronted by Detective Superintendent Douglas Roper of the Dorset County Criminal Investigation Department on the southern coast of England. Similar in many ways to the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) published more than 50 novels, the first when she was 19 years old. She wrote a dozen country house mysteries, eight in the 1930s, two in the 1940s, and two in the 1950s. The remaining books are historical fiction and historical romances....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head

One of the most intriguing aspects of Golden Age and mid-20th century authors is their almost endless versatility. So many of them seem to toss off a few mystery novels as a diversion from their real lives, which have nothing to do with writing. Ellen Wilkinson wrote...