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Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Place for Murder by Emma Lathen
Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, they decided to undertake...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in Harley Street by John Rhode
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was an impressively productive author of Golden Age crime fiction. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet, and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, published between 1925 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Post after Post-Mortem by E. C. R. Lorac
The British Library is steadily re-releasing the catalog of E. C. R. Lorac, title by title. Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac. Nearly all of the Lorac titles, about 45 of them, feature...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Texas by Ada E. Lingo
Murder in Texas by Ada Emma Lingo (Houghton Mifflin, 1935; Coachwhip, 2016) is another of those books that stands alone as its creator’s known output. Ada Lingo started as a journalist writing up social events for newspapers and then earned a medical degree which...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Salisbury Davis (1916-2014) was known for her deeply human characters and the sensitivity and compassion with which she portrayed them in her suspense fiction. She was nominated for an Edgar Award six times, served as President of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Snake-Bite and Other Mystery Tales of the Sahara by Robert S. Hichens
Stark House departed from its usual focus on mid-20th century authors when it produced this collection of North African short fiction by Robert S. Hichens (1864-1959) last year. Hichens was a prolific English author, beginning with his first novel published in...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.