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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold
Ianthe Jerrold (1898-1977) has been on my to-read list for awhile. She was an English author from a literary family. She began writing early and published in a number of genres, including two detective stories. The first was The Studio Crime with John Christmas, a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Robbed Blind by Roy Hart
Between 1987 and 1994 Roy Hart, a British avionics engineer, wrote nine police procedurals fronted by Detective Superintendent Douglas Roper of the Dorset County Criminal Investigation Department on the southern coast of England. Similar in many ways to the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Well Dressed for Murder by Laverne Rice
Laverne Rice (1890-1966) was a schoolteacher in New York, who also wrote short stories. Indexing is spotty for the years she was active, but the following complete citations were found with tantalizing suggestions of others: "Haze." NEW COPY. Columbia University...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) published more than 50 novels, the first when she was 19 years old. She wrote a dozen country house mysteries, eight in the 1930s, two in the 1940s, and two in the 1950s. The remaining books are historical fiction and historical...
Friday’s forgotten Book: Death Stops the Frolic by George Bellairs
George Bellairs, pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), is best known for his police procedural mysteries featuring Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, which were released between 1941 and 1980. He also wrote a few stand-alone mysteries, among them...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Devil in the Bush by Matthew Head
One of the most intriguing aspects of Golden Age and mid-20th century authors is their almost endless versatility. So many of them seem to toss off a few mystery novels as a diversion from their real lives, which have nothing to do with writing. Ellen Wilkinson...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.