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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Dark Garden by E.R. Punshon
The Dark Garden by Ernest Robertson Punshon (Gollancz, 1941) is the sixteenth book in the saga of police detective Bobby Owen. Owen started out as a police constable in London and made his way up the ladder of Scotland Yard and then left London for the rural...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Hal’s Own Murder Case by Lee Martin
Anne Wingate (Martha Anne Guice Wingate) has written multiple mystery series, including one of my all-time favorites. Under the name Lee Martin, she created the memorable character of Deb Ralston, a detective on the Fort Worth police force, with three adopted...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Cinnamon Murder by Frances Crane
Frances Kirkwood Crane (1896-1981) wrote 26 mysteries between 1941 and 1965 with private investigator Pat Abbott and his wife Jean in the leading crime-solving role. The Abbotts were based in San Francisco but travelled constantly so the stories are set in a range...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Not Dead, Only Resting by Simon Brett
Simon Brett has been a mainstay of English crime fiction for 45 years. He has published some 60 volumes, in addition to writing for radio and television series. He received the Diamond Dagger Award from The Crime Writers’ Association in 2014 and the Order of the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Appleby’s Answer by Michael Innes
Michael Innes (1906-1994) was the pen name used by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart to write around 50 mystery novels and collections of mystery short stories. He published contemporary fiction and literary criticism under his given name. He released around 35 books...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Gourmet Detective by Peter King
Peter King wrote eight books about the English chef turned food consultant Goodwin Harper between 1994 and 2003. According to Amazon, King was a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and a retired metallurgist who worked on the Apollo project for NASA. I haven’t been able to...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.