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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Harassed Hero by Ernest Dudley
Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen (1908 – 2006), known as Ernest Dudley, was an author, a screenwriter, an actor, and a journalist. He created the popular BBC radio crime series Dr Morelle that ran from 1942 to 1948 and the television series The Armchair Detective that...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Away Went the Little Fish by Margot Bennett
Margot Bennett (1912-1980) worked as an advertising copywriter, as a nurse and translator during the Spanish Civil War, and as a television scriptwriter. She wrote literary fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Compared to her Golden Age contemporaries, her...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger
A wonderful book told from the perspective of a child, Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger (Poisoned Pen Press, 2002) is set in London in 1953, which was awash with excitement over the approaching coronation of Queen Elizabeth. No one was more thrilled than...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Murder on the Bus by Cecil Freeman Gregg
Cecil Freeman Gregg (1898-1960) was a chartered secretary and accountant born in London. He published 42 mysteries between 1928 and 1960, with two main series characters, Inspector Cuthbert Higgins and Harry Prince. Harry Prince was a thief who was driven to a life...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was an attorney who wanted to earn enough money writing pulp fiction so that he could quit the practice of law. The general public knows him best as the creator of Perry Mason courtroom dramas but under the name of A. A. Fair he...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: To Kill a Cat by W. J. Burley
The works of W. J. Burley have been on my TBR list for years. I was given the opportunity to acquire a few of them recently and was able to rectify my oversight. William John Burley (1914-2002) began writing after completing a mid-career degree at Oxford and taking...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.