'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Back in the late 60s, or maybe the early 70s, I watched a TV murder game show, possibly called Who-dun-it? , which I enjoyed and which had a...

The detective novels of the husband and wife team GDH and Margaret Cole are rather a mixed bag. I have to say that I've been disappointe...

Bibliomysteries, in which books play a part in the story, are an interesting branch of crime writing. Otto Penzler has produced a slim v...

Maurice Procter put his experience as a policeman in Yorkshire to excellent use in a series of crime novels. His best-known book is Hell is ...

My Forgotten Book for today is Clifford Witting's Measure for Murder . Witting's name isn't well-known these days, but he retain...

Something a little different today - the story of a forgotten writer, rather than a forgotten book. It's a story that came to me throug...

The Secret of High Eldersham, first published in 1931,was the second book that John Rhode (or, to be precise, Cecil John Street) wrote under...

Scarweather , first published in 1934, is the third book by Anthony Rolls (real name C.E. Vulliamy) that I've covered in this blog, and ...

I've mentioned E.R. Punshon several times in this blog. There's not much doubt he's a forgotten writer, and the first time I rea...