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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Suddenly While Gardening by Elizabeth Lemarchand
Suddenly While Gardening (Walker, 1978) by Elizabeth Lemarchand (1906-2000) is the 10th mystery featuring Detective-Chief Superintendent Tom Pollard of New Scotland Yard and his partner Detective Inspector Toye. On a well-deserved vacation to a rural village...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan
So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan (John Long, 1947) is one of the Mordecai Tremaine mysteries, either the third (Amazon) or the fifth (Stop, You’re Killing Me). Tremaine is a retired tobacconist whose choice of leisure reading is romance stories and whose hobby...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird
Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird (Macdonald, 1968) is the second book in the Calleshire Chronicles, featuring Inspector C.D. Sloan and his inept assistant DC Crosby. Calleshire is an imaginary county somewhere in England, quite large enough apparently to support...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon
Eilis Dillon (1920-1994) was a productive Irish author whose primary target audience was the young adult reader. She wrote 38 YA books as well as two plays, an autobiographical history, eight novels, and three mysteries, two featuring retired Professor Daly,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle
Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle (Pocket Books, 1990) is the first of six political thrillers released between 1990 and 1995 featuring Tom Bethany, a former member of the Olympic wrestling team and a Vietnam vet, who describes himself as a security consultant but...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: In the Shadow of King’s by Nora Kelly
In the Shadow of King's by Nora Kelly (St. Martin’s Press, 1984) is the first of five mysteries featuring Vancouver academic Gillian Adams and her long-distance lover Edward Gisborne of Scotland Yard. In this debut Gillian returns to the University of Cambridge...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.