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Favorite Books of 2024
Reading time was hard to come by this year but I still managed to find a few hours here and there every week. November and December were much quieter and I raced through more than two dozen books, all of them good to very good. I will be reviewing some of them in...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Flair for Murder by Frances & Richard Lockridge
Frances Davis Lockridge (1896-1963) and Richard Lockridge (1899-1982) were journalists known mostly for their Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries. The 26 novels about the Norths spun off a Broadway play, a motion picture, and several radio and television series. The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Crime in Lepers’ Hollow by George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a Manchester bank manager as well as a freelance journalist. He published 57 popular classic police procedurals featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard between 1941 and 1980. He also...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes (1864-1929) was born in the Midlands of England. By the early 1900s she lived in London and moved in literary and feminist circles. Her early stories were serialized in newspapers, some were later revised and published in book form. Her first novel The...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bloody Instructions by Sara Woods
Dean Street Press, that champion of forgotten authors, has undertaken to reprint the entire set of Antony Maitland courtroom mysteries, all 48 of them. This series has unaccountably remained out of print for an unconscionable length of time. Written by Sara Woods...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson
Clemence Dane (1887-1965) was the pseudonym of London native Winifred Ashton, who was a playwright, sculptor, screenwriter, and novelist. She wrote more than 30 plays, including A Bill of Divorcement, which was made into a film starring Katherine Hepburn in 1932....
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.