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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

by | Apr 19, 2019

The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth (Viking, 1974) is the third of 18 thrillers from this reliable author of political intrigue and quite possibly my favorite. It is easy to forget about Forsyth’s earlier books because his stories are always set in the present or the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Music Tells All by E. R. Punshon

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Music Tells All by E. R. Punshon

by | Apr 12, 2019

One of my great finds last year was the prolific Golden Age author Ernest Robertson Punshon (1872-1956). Writing as E. R. Punshon, he released 35 books featuring Bobby Owen, an Oxford-educated policeman who worked his way up through the Scotland Yard ranks. He wrote...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan

Friday’s Forgotten Book: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan

by | Mar 29, 2019

So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan (John Long, 1947) is one of the Mordecai Tremaine mysteries, either the third (Amazon) or the fifth (Stop, You’re Killing Me). Tremaine is a retired tobacconist whose choice of leisure reading is romance stories and whose hobby is...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird

by | Mar 22, 2019

Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird (Macdonald, 1968) is the second book in the Calleshire Chronicles, featuring Inspector C.D. Sloan and his inept assistant DC Crosby. Calleshire is an imaginary county somewhere in England, quite large enough apparently to support two...