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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Up to the Hilt by Anne Rowe
Anne Von Meibom Rowe (1882-1961) published nine mysteries in the 1930s and 1940s and at least one short story. Hubin’s Crime Fiction IV offers the following list; note the number of publishers. One title appears to have been released in the UK but not in the United...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Deadman’s Bay by Leonard A. Knight
Leonard Alfred Knight (1895-1977) is another of those crime fiction authors who was popular for awhile and then disappeared as reading tastes changed. Knight was born in Burpham, Sussex, on 3 January 1895. His parents were Arthur and Harriett Knight, and he had a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac
Perhaps of all the obscure authors brought back into the public’s eye by the British Library in its Crime Classics series, I enjoy the work of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) the most. Her 70 plus mysteries, originally published between 1931 and 1959, are...
Classic Crime Fiction: A Starting Point
Kate Jackson, otherwise known as the Armchair Reviewer, is celebrating 10 years as a blogger this month with an intriguing competition. She asks those of us who read classic crime to recommend 10 titles for someone unfamiliar with the subgenre. See the details...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murders at Scandal House by Peter Hunt
Peter Hunt is a Hubin-listed author of three books published in the early 1930s. Hunt is the joint pseudonym of George Worthing Yates (1901-1975) and Charles Hunt Marshall (1901-1986). Yates was an American screenwriter and author. His early work was on...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: They Tell No Tales by Manning Coles
Manning Coles was the joint pen name used by British writers and neighbors Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965) and Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959). Between 1940 and 1958 they produced more than 20 lively spy stories featuring Thomas Elphinstone (Tommy)...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.