Recent Posts
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Suicide Season by Rex Burns
Between 1975 and 1997 Rex Burns released about a dozen fine police procedurals set in Denver, Colorado, with homicide detective Gabe Wager as the protagonist. The first one in the series, The Alvarez Journal, was shortlisted for the Edgar for Best First Novel in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Lady to Kill by Lester Dent
Lester Dent (1904-1959) was a wildly successful pulp writer, writing 165 full-length stories between 1933 and 1949 about Doc Savage, a crime fighter who was intrigued by technology, as was Dent himself. In addition, he wrote nonfiction, novels, short stories, and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bring the Bride a Shroud by D. B. Olsen / Dolores Hitchens
Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) wrote dozens of mysteries beginning in 1938, publishing them under her own name and under the pseudonyms D. B. Olsen, Dolan Birkley, and Noel Burke. Her series characters include Jim Sader, a PI; John Farrel, a railroad detective; and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Museum Murder by John T. McIntyre
John Thomas McIntyre (1871-1951) was a Philadelphia author of mysteries, noir, historical fiction, and plays. His first detective Ashton-Kirk was similar to Philo Vance and Spike Tracy, wealthy young socialites who assist the police. Ashton-Kirk appeared in four...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Skeleton Coast Contract by Philip Atlee
James Atlee Phillips (1915-1991) was a colorful pulp fiction writer who also published under the name Philip Atlee. He worked as a journalist, traveled with overseas airlines, spent some time in the military, and had a stint in Hollywood, where he worked for John...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Mysteries of Africa edited by Eugene Schleh
Eugene Paul Anderson Schleh (1939-2007) received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University. His dissertation was entitled Post-Service Careers of African World War Two Veterans: British East and West Africa with Particular Reference to Ghana and...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.