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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,...
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...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.