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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) does not need an introduction. However, just in case, he was an attorney who didn’t care for the practice of law. He started writing pulp fiction in the 1920s so that he could leave the law as a profession behind. The general public...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Pigeon Blood Rubies by M. McDonnell Bodkin
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933) was an Irish politician, newspaper editor, barrister later appointed County Court Judge for County Clare, and member of the Irish parliament. He wrote in multiple genres and in 1897 created the detective Paul Beck, who...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Greenmask! by Elizabeth Linington
Barbara Elizabeth Linington (1921-1988) was an inexhaustible American author who wrote under the names Elizabeth Linington, Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill, and Dell Shannon. She initially wrote radio and stage dramas and then turned to historical...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Going to St. Ives by Colver Harris
Polly Anne Colver Harris (1908-1991) is listed in the WorldCat author identification database variously as Polly Anne Colver Harris, Anne Colver, Polly Anne Colver Graff, Polly Anne Colver, and Colver Harris. According to the Gale Literature Resource Center, she...
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...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.