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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
The Black Camel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1929) by Earl Derr Biggers is the fourth of six mysteries Biggers wrote about Honolulu police officer Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American with eleven Americanized children. Inspector Chan’s appearances in a series of not...
Friday’s Forgotten Friday: Murder in Jackson Hole by Maude Parker
Maude Louise Parker Pavenstedt (1892-1959) was born in Galveston, Texas, and attended the University of Wisconsin. She began writing early and documented her experience as the wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy during the years of political unrest before...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Student Body by Nigel FitzGerald
Nigel FitzGerald (1906-1981) was an Irish actor who starred in detective films and served as president of the Irish Actor’s Equity Association for a time. He wrote a dozen mysteries between 1953 and 1967, all published by Collins. Only half of them were also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher
No one familiar with mysteries needs an introduction to Anthony Boucher. To be thorough however, quoting from Wikipedia: “William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, was an American author, critic, and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: An Abuse of Justice by Roger Parkes
I think I have someone in the UK Crime Book Club on Facebook to thank for mentioning Roger Parkes (1933-2008), who was a British screenwriter and a novelist. Primarily known for his work on British television, he also turned out about a dozen novels. The Dark...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Walk the Dark Streets by William Krasner
William Krasner (1917–2003) was an American psychologist and mystery author. His service in the Army Air Corps gave him educational benefits under the G.I. Bill and allowed him to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University. He also studied...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.