Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder Gone Minoan by Clyde B. Clason

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder Gone Minoan by Clyde B. Clason

Clyde Burt Clason (1903-1987) was born in Denver, Colorado, where he graduated from the University of Denver and then worked in Chicago as an advertising copywriter and a trade newsletter editor. He published 10 mysteries between 1936 and 1941, all featuring elderly...
Guilt by John Lescroart

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...
Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg

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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hasty Wedding by Mignon G. Eberhart

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hasty Wedding by Mignon G. Eberhart

Thanks to the miracle of Google, I discovered this brief article from TIME magazine called “Books: Mysteries of the Month: May 30, 1938”: “Of seven average and better than average mystery stories published last month, three stood out as best bets. In order of merit:...