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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth
A recent comment on the Golden Age Detection Facebook group sent me back to Patricia Wentworth and Miss Silver this week. I picked up The Brading Collection (Hodder & Stoughton, 1950), the 18th in Miss Silver’s adventures, later published as Mr. Brading’s...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fen Country by Edmund Crispin
Robert Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) who wrote crime fiction under the name Edmund Crispin and composed music under his real name is hardly a forgotten author. His literary output was small compared to some of his contemporaries, only nine novels and two volumes of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Death to Remember by Roger Ormerod
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was an inventive and prolific author of crime fiction. After a career in multiple civil service positions, he took up writing and published nearly 50 books between 1974 and 1999. That’s almost two books a year. His series characters were...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Truth Comes Limping by J. J. Connington
J. J. Connington was a pseudonym for Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947), a Scot educated in Glasgow, Germany, and London. Stewart had a long career as a university lecturer and professor in Chemistry at Glasgow and Belfast. He wrote two dozen mysteries between...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Treasure by Post by David Williams
David Stuart Williams (1926-2003) was a successful advertising executive who began dabbling in crime fiction as a hobby before illness forced his retirement and he took up writing full time. He published 23 detective novels between 1976 and 2003, 6 about...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley
Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley (The Stratford Company, 1933; Coachwhip Publications, 2018) was the only mystery published by Mary Frances Burks (1907-1970). Burks was a Tennessee native, graduating from Vanderbilt University and marrying historian and...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.