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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar Box
I love mysteries that involve the performing arts. The dichotomy between the action on the stage and behind the scenes is fascinating. My favorite Ngaio Marsh books are those she set in her world of theatre. I was surprised to learn recently that Gore Vidal...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Long Shadows by Carol Carnac
A well-read copy of the last book Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) wrote under the name Carol Carnac came my way recently. Its price, modest relative to better preserved copies, made its acquisition a given, despite my goal to stop buying books. (Ha ha) Long...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Draycott Murder Mystery by Molly Thynne
The Draycott Murder Mystery by Mary Harriet (Molly) Thynne (1881-1950) was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1928 and reprinted by Dean Street Press in 2016 with an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. It was originally released under...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Flat Tyre in Fulham by Josephine Bell
Josephine Bell was the pseudonym of Doris Bell Collier Ball (1897-1987), a British doctor who began writing to produce a badly needed second income after the death of her husband. She started publishing detective novels in 1936 under her pen name, using her...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Duplicate Daughter by Erle Stanley Gardner
To celebrate Erle Stanley Gardner’s 136th birthday (17 July 1889) and because other reviewers are posting their latest Gardner read, I pulled out one of my favorite Perry Mason books and re-read it. The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (Morrow, 1960) was one of three...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Whose Hand? by Vernon Loder
John George Haslette Vahey (1881–1938) was born in Belfast and was educated at Ulster, Foyle College, and Hanover. He first worked as an architect, then as an accountant, and then became a full-time writer. His novel was published in 1916 and his last in 1938,...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.