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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Truth Comes Limping by J. J. Connington
J. J. Connington was a pseudonym for Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947), a Scot educated in Glasgow, Germany, and London. Stewart had a long career as a university lecturer and professor in Chemistry at Glasgow and Belfast. He wrote two dozen mysteries between...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Treasure by Post by David Williams
David Stuart Williams (1926-2003) was a successful advertising executive who began dabbling in crime fiction as a hobby before illness forced his retirement and he took up writing full time. He published 23 detective novels between 1976 and 2003, 6 about...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley
Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley (The Stratford Company, 1933; Coachwhip Publications, 2018) was the only mystery published by Mary Frances Burks (1907-1970). Burks was a Tennessee native, graduating from Vanderbilt University and marrying historian and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: I Could Murder Her by E. C. R. Lorac
Between 1931 and 1959 Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) published more than 70 mysteries under the names E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac. Nearly all of the E. C. R. Lorac titles, about 45 of them, feature Chief Inspector Robert MacDonald, a Scot...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Death in the Willows by Richard Forrest
Richard Stockton Forrest (1932-2005) was an author of mysteries and nonfiction, as well as short stories. He also wrote under the names Stockton Woods, Lee Evans, and Rebecca Morgan. His first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1975. His next...
Friday’s Forgotten BooK: The Double Thirteen Mystery by Anthony Wynne
Anthony Wynne was the pseudonym of Robert NcNair Wilson (1882-1963), a Scottish physician, writer, and politician. He specialized in cardiology and he was the medical correspondent for The Times for more than 30 years. He wrote nonfiction under his name and fiction...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.