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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Murder of Cecily Thane by Harriette Ashbrook
Harriette Ashbrook (1898-1946) was a journalist and author from the Midwest, born in Kansas. She was a newspaper reporter for the Lincoln Journal before joining Harper’s as a publicist. From there she became the publicity director for the Coward-McCann Publishing...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death Breaks the Ring by Virginia Rath
Virginia McVay Rath (1905-1950) was born in northern California near San Francisco and graduated from the University of California. She taught high school before marrying and beginning her literary career during which she published thirteen novels. She has two...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Shackles by Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini is a spectacularly high-volume author, having written more than 300 short stories and more than 100 novels. He’s also compiled a large number of anthologies of mystery, science fiction, and Western short fiction. But he’s mostly known as a writer of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Black and White by Evelyn Elder
Evelyn Elder was a pseudonym used by Milward Kennedy, which was the writing name of Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (1894 –1968). Burge was an English civil servant, journalist, literary critic, and author of crime fiction. He was London editor of the Empire Digest and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow
I was fortunate enough to see the Summer of Soul documentary released earlier this year, restored footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and interviews with both singers and attendees. I had forgotten about some of the bands: Sly and the Family Stone in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Case in the Clinic 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...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.