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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) published more than 50 novels, the first when she was 19 years old. She wrote a dozen country house mysteries, eight in the 1930s, two in the 1940s, and two in the 1950s. The remaining books are historical fiction and historical...
Friday’s forgotten Book: Death Stops the Frolic by George Bellairs
George Bellairs, pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), is best known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, which were released between 1941 and 1980. He also wrote a few stand-alone mysteries, among them...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head
One of the most intriguing aspects of Golden Age and mid-20th century authors is their almost endless versatility. So many of them seem to toss off a few mystery novels as a diversion from their real lives, which have nothing to do with writing. Ellen Wilkinson...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Basil Thomson
Dean Street Press kindly put a number of their Golden Age reprint ebooks on sale recently and I took advantage of their generosity. Among my purchases was The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Sir Basil Home Thomson (Eldon Press, 1937; Dean Street Press, 2016)....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes
I am continuing to indulge in the ebook releases of the fabulous Inspector Henry Tibbett series. The third book, Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962), finds Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett emulating his globe-trotting creator and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was a prolific author of the Golden Age who did not fade into obscurity as many GAD authors did. So much has been written about her that I will only say that she published 18 novels featuring Albert Campion between 1929 and...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.