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Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Cursing Stones Murder by George Bellairs
I continued my investigation into the works of George Bellairs and his detective Chief Inspector Littlejohn by reading The Cursing Stones Murder (Gifford, 1954), the book immediately following the one I reviewed a few weeks ago, and found it more to my liking, as...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Cat Screams by Todd Downing
Todd Downing (1902-1974) published nine detective novels between 1933 and 1941 before abruptly abandoning writing altogether. Most of his books were set in Mexico; his series detective is U. S. Customs Agent Hugh Rennert. See more about Downing on the Golden Age of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: I Start Counting by Audrey Erskine Lindop
Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920 – 7 November 1986) wrote about eight novels, lists of her works vary. I Start Counting (Doubleday, 1966) seems to have been the most well-known of them, based on the success of the film adaptation with Jenny Agutter in her...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Emperor’s Snuffbox by John Dickson Carr
The Emperor’s Snuffbox by John Dickson Carr (Harper, 1942) is a dazzling display of plotting pyrotechnics. No locked room but a puzzle so tightly woven I had to read the explication twice before I fully understood all of the moving parts. Eve Neill has finally...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth
She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth (J.B. Lippincott, 1945) is the ninth mystery featuring Miss Silver, former governess and now modestly successful private investigator. The family of Lady Anne Jocelyn is stunned when Anne appears unexpectedly in her country home,...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Corpses in Enderby by George Bellairs
George Bellairs is a byword in the world of classic British crime fiction. The pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902-1982), a Manchester bank manager as well as a freelance journalist, he published 57 popular classic police procedural mysteries featuring Inspector...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.