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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
The crime fiction output of Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was only 14 novels but their influence was profound. Her work continues to be read, reprinted, and analyzed nearly 60 years after the publication of the last book in 1963, when she turned to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Leaning Man by Christopher Bush
Christopher Bush (1885-1973) is another prolific writer of the Golden Age who faded from view in the past 50 years. Why his books have not been reprinted while his contemporaries have been is a mystery in itself. Through the assiduous efforts of Dean Street Press,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder of Lydia by Joan A. Cowdroy
Joan A. Cowdroy (1884-1946) was an early 20th century English author who started writing general fiction and then discovered her talents for developing mysteries. Her first series detective was Chief Inspector John Gorham of Scotland Yard and then she created Li...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake
First, I have to say this is not really a forgotten book. It’s been in print one way or another ever since it was published more than 70 years ago. I read Minute for Murder by Nicholas Blake (Collins, 1947) over the weekend. It is the eighth Nigel Strangeways and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Laughing Dog by Francis Vivian
The Laughing Dog by Arthur Ernest Ashley writing as Francis Vivian (Hodder & Stoughton, 1949) is the fifth mystery from Ashley/Vivian that features Inspector Gordon Knollis of New Scotland Yard. Here is another series being rescued from undeserved oblivion by...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Middle Temple Murder by J. S. Fletcher
Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He is known for his prodigious literary output. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction (Source: Wikipedia)....
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.