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Death by Bequest by Mary McMullen
Mary McMullen (1920-1986) was a pseudonym of Mary Reilly Wilson, mystery and suspense writer of some 20 books. She was the daughter of mystery writer Helen Reilly, known for books about Inspector Christopher McKee of the Manhattan Homicide Squad, and sister of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Columnist Murder by Lawrence Saunders
Again, this week’s forgotten book serves two purposes. The Columnist Murder by Lawrence Saunders was originally published in 1931 by Farrar & Rhinehart, making it a Golden Age mystery. It was reprinted in January 2025 by Coachwhip Publications, adding it to the...
Dolly and the Singing Bird by Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Halliday Dunnett (1923-2001) was a Scottish author and portrait painter, known to readers mostly for her historical sagas about a 16th century Scottish lord and a 15th century European financier. A website about her run by a former chair of the Dorothy...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
So, this week’s forgotten book serves two purposes. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern is indeed an older classic mystery originally published in 1934 by W. W. Norton and largely unfamiliar to most contemporary mystery readers. It was also re-issued by American...
The Knavish Crows by Sara Woods
The Knavish Crows (Collins, 1971) by Sara Woods may be the only Antony Maitland title I have not managed to read and collect over a long period of acquiring worn ex-library and tattered paperback copies of the series. It seems not to have been published in the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Alarum and Excursion by Virginia Perdue
Another book this week from The Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction 1900-1950 series, edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. (See the entire list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/84989.50_Classics_of_Crime_Fiction_1900_1950) In the series preface...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.