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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Most Cunning Workmen by Roy Lewis

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Most Cunning Workmen by Roy Lewis

by | Aug 23, 2019

John Royston Lewis (1933- ) published some 70 volumes of crime fiction (https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/roy-lewis/) under the name Roy Lewis, including 22 stand-alone novels and three series. (Stop, You’re Killing Me!, http://www.stopyourekillingme.com, lists about...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Arrest the Bishop? by Winifred Peck

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Arrest the Bishop? by Winifred Peck

by | Aug 16, 2019

Winifred Peck (1882-1962) was born Winifred Francis Knox; Golden Age mystery writer Ronald Knox was her brother. She wrote over two dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including two mysteries, The Warrielaw Jewel, 1933, and Arrest the Bishop?, 1949. While Arrest...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Perfect Match by Jill McGown

Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Perfect Match by Jill McGown

by | Aug 9, 2019

Jill McGown was born 9 August 1947 in Campbeltown, Scotland, and died 6 April 2007 in Kettering, about 70 miles north of London.  She wrote 18 novels, 13 of which featured the adventures of Detective Inspector David Lloyd and Detective Sergeant Judy Hill of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Safe Secret by Harry Carmichael

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Safe Secret by Harry Carmichael

by | Aug 2, 2019

Leopold Horace Ognall (1908 – 1979) wrote nearly 100 novels under the names Hartley Howard and Harry Carmichael. He was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist before starting a career in fiction. He published a lengthy series...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth

by | Jul 26, 2019

Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth (Lippincott, 1953) is the 23rd Miss Silver mystery and a surprisingly dark one it is. I didn’t know it was possible. Nearly every single character has something to hide, which is certainly unusual for this series. And the victim...