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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Murder on the Bus by Cecil Freeman Gregg
Cecil Freeman Gregg (1898-1960) was a chartered secretary and accountant born in London. He published 42 mysteries between 1928 and 1960, with two main series characters, Inspector Cuthbert Higgins and Harry Prince. Harry Prince was a thief who was driven to a life...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was an attorney who wanted to earn enough money writing pulp fiction so that he could quit the practice of law. The general public knows him best as the creator of Perry Mason courtroom dramas but under the name of A. A. Fair he...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: To Kill a Cat by W. J. Burley
The works of W. J. Burley have been on my TBR list for years. I was given the opportunity to acquire a few of them recently and was able to rectify my oversight. William John Burley (1914-2002) began writing after completing a mid-career degree at Oxford and taking...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Crooked Lane by Frances Noyes Hart
Frances Newbold Noyes Hart (1890-1943) mostly wrote short stories for Scribner's magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, and the Ladies' Home Journal, although sometimes she branched out into longer fiction. The Bellamy Trial (1927) was so popular that Howard...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Last Best Hope by Ed McBain
The Last Best Hope by Ed McBain (Warner Books, 1998) is the concluding book in the Matthew Hope series of 13 titles. One of the noteworthy aspects of this story is that the author clearly ends the narrative arc of Hope’s adventures with it. That option isn’t...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was a pillar of Golden Age crime fiction, writing under multiple names. As John Rhode, he created a series of about 70 books with Dr. Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet, and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, published between 1925...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.