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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand
Christianna Brand was the pseudonym of Mary Christianna Lewis (1907-1985), who also wrote as China Thomson, Annabel Jones, Mary Roland, and Mary Ann Ashe. She wrote mysteries, fantasy, short stories, and children’s books. The 2005 film Nanny McPhee is based on the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hard Liver by Anthony Weymouth
About a year ago I talked about one of the last Inspector Treadgold mysteries by Anthony Weymouth, the pseudonym of Ivo Geikie Cobb (1887-1953), a London physician and author. Cobb wrote a number of books on clinical topics and seven detective novels about...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Has Deep Roots by Michael Gilbert
Michael Francis Gilbert (1912–2006) was an English solicitor and well-known author of crime fiction. His legal career was interrupted by World War II, when he served with the British Army in north Africa and in Italy. His work includes more than 30 novels and 13...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Clubbed to Death by Ruth Dudley Edwards
After reading about the gentlemen’s club in Keep It Quiet by Richard Hull earlier this year (https://happinessisabook.com/fridays-forgotten-book-keep-it-quiet-by-richard-hull/), I checked for other mysteries in the same setting. Of course there is The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters
The Summer of the Danes (Mysterious Press, 1991) is the eighteenth book in the historical mystery series about Brother Cadfael, soldier turned herbalist and monk, written by Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters. It is one of the last books about the Welsh Benedictine...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Desert Lake Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan
Kay Cleaver Strahan (1888-1941) was an American author who lived in Portland, Oregon. In 1918 she began contributing short stories to popular magazines. She was also a mystery novelist; her bibliography includes: Peggy Mary (1915), Something That Begins with...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.