Guilt by John Lescroart
My recent trip to San Francisco included a visit to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley where some of the jewels of the California Detective Fiction collection were on display, including the papers of legal thriller author John Lescroart. Lescroart is among my...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Medbury Fort Murder by George Limnelius
I ran across a discussion in which bloggers offered their favorite Golden Age mysteries, and The Medbury Fort Murder (Collins Crime Club, 1929) by George Limnelius was mentioned twice. Of course I cannot find the discussion again so I cannot give credit to the...
Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg
Cornelius Hirschberg (1901-1995) is another of those authors who emerge from nowhere, produce one fine mystery, and then turn their attention to other pursuits, leaving readers like me to wonder how many more good stories were left untold. Hirschberg was 63 years old...