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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lay On, Mac Duff by Charlotte Armstrong
Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969) was a U.S. author of novels, short stories, and plays. She also worked in the advertising section of the New York Times and as a fashion reporter. She’s most well known for domestic suspense novels, some of which were adapted for...
Murder Strikes Pink by Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924-2014) was the daughter of author Joanna Cannan and the sister of playwright Denis Cannan and authors Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson. Cannan and her three daughters were mostly known for their books about ponies and pony clubs....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Bank Vault Mystery by Louis F. Booth
Louis F. Booth (1903-1996) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He became a civil engineer with a firm in New Jersey, and he wrote two mysteries when he lost his job on a large construction project during the worst of the Depression. From the Family Search website:...
Stars for the Toff by John Creasey
John Creasey MBE (1908–1973) was an English author of crime, romance, and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred books using some twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Of his many series characters, the Toff, the sobriquet of the Honorable Richard Rollison,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Printer’s Error by Gladys Mitchell
My new year launched with a hundred good resolutions, most of which will falter before long. But before they do, I wanted to tackle a book by Gladys Mitchell (1901-1983). I tried reading her work years ago and was left befuddled. Yet she was highly praised, then...
Persons Unknown by Gwen Moffat
Gwen Moffat (1924-???) was a British travel writer, mountain guide, and pioneering climber. Her nonfiction work covers travel destinations from Wales to the Himalayas, and she was the first woman to be appointed a mountain guide in UK. For her accomplishments, she...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.