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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)...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Go Down, Death by Sue Brown Hays
Sue Brown Hays (1905-?) was the descendant of several generations of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton planters. Go Down, Death, which appears to be her only book, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1946 and by Hammond, Hammond & Company in 1948....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Casual Slaughters by James Quince
James Quince was the pseudonym used by James Reginald Spittal (1876-1951), an English clergyman who wrote three novels in the 1930s and then went on to other pursuits. As has been noted, it is a loss for crime fiction readers that he didn’t continue writing. Based...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Error of the Moon by Sara Woods
Sara Woods took her barrister protagonist Antony Maitland out of the courtroom for his fourth adventure, Error of the Moon (Collins Crime Club, 1963; Dean Street Press, 2024). Considering the state of geopolitics in the early 1960s, when the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Farmhouse by Helen Reilly
Helen Reilly (1891-1962) was an American novelist. She was born Helen Kieran and grew up in New York City in a literary family. Her brother, James Kieran, also wrote a mystery, and two of her daughters, Ursula Curtiss and Mary McMullen, were mystery...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.