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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Basil Thomson
Dean Street Press kindly put a number of their Golden Age reprint ebooks on sale recently and I took advantage of their generosity. Among my purchases was The Milliner’s Hat Mystery by Sir Basil Home Thomson (Eldon Press, 1937; Dean Street Press, 2016)....
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes
I am continuing to indulge in the ebook releases of the fabulous Inspector Henry Tibbett series. The third book, Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962), finds Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett emulating his globe-trotting creator and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham (1904-1966) was a prolific author of the Golden Age who did not fade into obscurity as many GAD authors did. So much has been written about her that I will only say that she published 18 novels featuring Albert Campion between 1929 and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Odds-On Murder by Jack Dolph
Jack Dolph is the pseudonym of John Mather Dolph (1895-1962). He was a race horse trainer, an American writer of pulp crime novels, radio producer, television scriptwriter, and actor. He published five mysteries between 1948 and 1953, mostly about horseracing, then...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Deductions of Colonel Gore by Lynn Brock
Lynn Brock (1877-1943) was the pseudonym of Alister McAllister, an Irish writer. He first wrote plays as Anthony Wharton and then turned to crime fiction using the name Lynn Brock. He created the character of Colonel Gore who starred in five books and a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hopjoy Was Here by Colin Watson
I finally got around to picking up another title in the Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson. Why I waited so long I do not understand. I loved the first one I read and I loved Hopjoy Was Here (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962), the third in the series of 12 gently...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.