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Friday’s Forgotten Books: Blood Type by Stephen Greenleaf

Friday’s Forgotten Books: Blood Type by Stephen Greenleaf

by | Mar 6, 2020

Stephen Greenleaf published 14 private investigator mysteries between 1979 and 2000. Each book focuses on a social issue: Southern Cross talked about the Civil Rights movement and Strawberry Sunday is engrossed with migrant farm labor. His protagonist John Marshall...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly

by | Feb 28, 2020

Helen Reilly (1891-1962) wrote nearly 40 mysteries between 1930 and 1962. Her primary series character was Inspector Christopher McKee of the fictional Manhattan Homicide Squad. She is credited with writing some of the earliest known police procedurals, using...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Slayground by Richard Stark

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Slayground by Richard Stark

by | Feb 21, 2020

Donald Westlake (1933-2008) was an assiduous and creative author with about 100 crime fiction novels and dozens of short stories to his credit under various pen names. His fecund imagination earned him the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Innocent Bystander by Craig Rice

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Innocent Bystander by Craig Rice

by | Feb 14, 2020

Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig (1908–1957) wrote a number of mysteries, short stories, and screenplays under the name Craig Rice after beginning her writing career as a journalist in 1930. She is mostly known for her comic mysteries with Jake Justus, a clueless press...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Unholy Writ by David Williams

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Unholy Writ by David Williams

by | Jan 31, 2020

Unholy Writ by David Williams (Williams Collins Sons, 1976) is the first of 17 mysteries published between 1976 and 1993 featuring Mark Treasure, Vice-Chairman of Grenwood Phipps & Co., merchant bankers of London, and his actress wife Molly. Treasure is clearly...