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The Corpse Now Arriving by Margaret Hinxman
Margaret Hinxman (1924-2018) was a preeminent UK film critic who turned to writing crime fiction after a wildly successful journalistic career. Her obituary in The Guardian describes her cinematic work in detail:...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was a British cleric and author. He was the son of the Bishop of Manchester. His brother Evoe was editor of Punch magazine and his sister Winifred Francis Knox Peck wrote in a range of genres, including two mysteries which have...
Death of a Perfect Mother by Robert Barnard
Since I began looking at overlooked or forgotten authors, I have found one writer after another whose work was popular during his or her lifetime and then at death it promptly vanished from discussions about favorite books and must-reads. I fear that Robert Barnard...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dark Angel by James Ronald
James Jack Ronald (1905-1972) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction, mystery stories, and dramatic novels. Raised in Glasgow, Ronald moved to Chicago at seventeen where he worked in a variety of jobs and then returned to the UK to pursue a writing career. His early...
The Big Killing by Annette Meyers
Annette Meyers was assistant to Broadway producer-director Harold Prince for sixteen years, and then she was an executive search and management consultant on Wall Street for as long. With her husband Martin Meyers she wrote a series of historical mysteries about...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: There’s Death in the Churchyard by William Gore
Godfrey Jervis “Jan” (1882-1944) and Cora Josephine Turner (1879-1950) Gordon were artists and authors, painting in Paris before World War I and then traveling to Serbia to work with aid organizations there when war was declared. Jan was appointed a Lieutenant in...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.