Friday’s Forgotten Book: Alarum and Excursion by Virginia Perdue
Another book this week from The Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 series, edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. (See the entire list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/84989.50_Classics_of_Crime_Fiction_1900_1950) In the series preface to...
Death of a Darling by E. X. Giroux
I have been looking into mysteries that I missed one way or another when they were new. One series that sailed past me when it was published in the 1980s features London barrister Robert Forsythe and his highly competent secretary Abigail Sanderson in 10 traditional...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blood on the Bosom Devine by Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) was an English playwright, a contemporary of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. The name was also the pseudonym of Alfred Bennett Harbage (1901-1976), a U.S. Shakespearean scholar. Harbage was born in Philadelphia and educated at the...