Shakespearean scholar Gerald William Phillips composed a Holmes pastiche in the late 1920s, his only mystery. Horton Forbes is his investigator, schoolteacher Jack Kent is his Dr. Watson, and they both search for the killer of harmless Dr. Cheney. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Anne Wingate AKA Lee Martin wrote 13 books about Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston, a frazzled mother of 3 with a full-time job and an unexpected pregnancy just to keep her life interesting. She is one of my all-time favorite sleuths. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/murder-at-th...

Anthony Gilbert wrote a long series about solicitor Arthur Crook. Before that though there was a series about MP Scott Egerton, who wasn't quite as interesting. This week's forgotten book is the third. #FFB 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Margaret Reid Duncan Gilloran was a lawyer & crime fiction reader. After she retired, she began writing her own mysteries, 15 books about lawyer & private investigator Lennox Kemp. With Flowers that Fell is a convoluted case that seemed simple at first. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/with-flowers...

Medora Field is best remembered for her history of antebellum mansions but she wrote two mysteries. The first is set in one of those old homes with creaking stairs and a hidden room and a surprisingly good mystery. #FFB 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Contemporary crime fiction set during the early days of Hollywood was harder to find than I expected. These 14 mysteries are good whodunits and unintentional social histories. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/vintage-holl...

David Roberts wrote 10 books about Lord Edward Corinth & Verity Browne, strong similarity to Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane. The Corinth/Browne series is set during the tumultuous 1930s & reflects the political & economic uncertainty of the time. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... 📚⚡️ 📚💙

Sara Woods published ten books under other names. Where There's a Will by Anne Burton puts a bank manager on the trail of a killer to get the bank's customer out of jail. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/where-theres...

This week's forgotten book is by an Anglo-Irish author named John Christopher Lenehan. His books were largely published only in the UK which makes them hard to find in the US. This second mystery is a tidy locked room puzzle set on a train. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

The Mark Treasure mysteries by David Williams are hard to find in the U.S. so I haven't read as many of them as I would like. But I did find this early entry about investment banker Treasure and an advertising company targeted for a buyout. happinessisabook.com/advertise-fo... 📚⚡️ 📚💙

The combination of ballet and murder is not one that occurred to me but clearly it did to Edgar Box, who turned out a lively and readable mystery. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book combines the unlikely duo of a social climbing doctor and a skilled con man. Highly entertaining read! 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book is the first mystery by Molly Thynne, who wrote six mysteries and then spent the rest of her life traveling. #FFB 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Josephine Bell was the pen name of Doris Bell Collier Ball. She was a doctor & turned to writing as a second income in the 1930s. While she published several dozen novels, the quality is uneven. A Flat Tyre in Fulham however is a nicely readable mystery. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book is a later Perry Mason legal thriller. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book is a classic murderous country house weekend with con man as victim and the people whose lives he ruined as suspects. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book is by obscure author Anne Rowe who wrote 9 mysteries in the 1930s and 1940s. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's forgotten book is the first from Welsh transplant Leonard A. Knight, who wrote a number of thrillers in the 1930s. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... 📚⚡️ 📚💙

This week on Kevin's Corner I talk about a Croatian noir title that has won a number of awards. Bitter Lemon Press, publisher of the English translation, is up for the 2025 CWA Best Publisher Dagger. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/06/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is another gem from the overlooked Carol Carnac. Her books are quite hard to find but the British Library has reprinted three of them. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

UK blogger Kate Jackson asks what 10 books should a reader new to classic crime fiction start with. The responses on her original post are varied and offer something for everyone. My list turned into a lengthy explanation. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/classic-crim...

This week's book is the first by Hollywood denizens George Worthing Yates & Charles Hunt Marshall. It introduces Alan Miller, chief of police in Totten Ferry, Connecticut, who goes on vacation but finds himself dealing with a large murderous family. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... 💙📚⚡️

This week's forgotten book is the third Tommy Hambledon by British writers and neighbors Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Frances Oke Manning. Set in early 1939, it's a pleasant mix of espionage and detection. ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is the latest in an excellent historical mystery series. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/06/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is a deeply suspenseful debut from Mississippi native Sue Brown Hays, who wrote one book and then disappeared. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... ⚡️📚💙

Inheritance Tracks by Catherine Aird is one of the later Crosby & Sloan titles. It leans on Agatha Christie, John Galsworthy, & Beatrix Potter for its plot. I loved it. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/05/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is set in a Devon village full of amusing characters. A witty narrative and a hard-working vicar as well as some twists on mystery traditions make this book a delight. #FFB ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

An early entry in the fine Antony Maitland series by Sara Woods takes him out of the courtroom and into an R&D firm. ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is set in an exotic corner of Africa, where a wealthy dysfunctional family falls apart. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/05/aubr...

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is a fine historical mystery set in London during World War II. Fans of Billy Boyle should look at this series. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/05/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is a later title in the Inspector McKee series by Helen Reilly. It displays the mid-century trend toward psychological suspense along with the police procedural aspects. #FFB ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

I will be talking about how new authors can establish their presence among the hundreds of books being published every month this Saturday. ⚡️📚💙 sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is an historical mystery set in 1952 Washington DC, before the city became a political powerhouse. Readers will recognize the references to another real-life murder in the same area about 50 years later. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/05/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is a mystery and a thriller and a spy novel. I don't quite know what to call it. One of Eaton K. Goldthwaite's stories about Lieutenant Joseph Dickerson of the Boston Police. #FFB ⚡️📚💙https://happinessisabook.com/fridays-forgotten-book-root-of-evil-by-eaton-k-goldthwaite/

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is a fine new historical mystery set in 1920s Glasgow. Three separate threads describe the actions of three very different women who find ways to work around the flagrant misogyny of the time. kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/04/aubr... ⚡️📚💙

This week's forgotten book is a village mystery from Gerald Verner. I tend to associate him with urban settings but this one has overtones of ECR Lorac and Agatha Christie. #FFB ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is a collection of short stories written by Marcia Talley and published by Crippen & Landru. kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/04/aubr... ⚡️📚💙

Sheila Pim was an Irish author and horticulturist. She wrote only four mysteries which the late lamented Rue Morgue was kind enough to reprint. This week's forgotten book is Pim's second Irish village mystery. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... ⚡️📚💙

The second book in the historical mystery series about a welfare worker in the early days of the National Health Service of Scotland was released last week in the UK. This is Catriona McPherson's third series. kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/04/aubr... ⚡️📚💙

Who remembers the John Putnam Thatcher books by Emma Lathen? Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart, the brains behind Lathen, also created a Congressman from Ohio under the name R. B. Dominic. Today's forgotten book is the second one in that series. #FFB ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

To observe the launch of the new baseball season, I found one of the titles in Canadian author Alison Gordon's mystery series about sportswriter Kate Henry. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/04/aubr...

This week's forgotten book is another Arthur Crook adventure by Anthony Gilbert AKA Lucy Malleson. Cockney lawyer Crook helps a retired nurse who is suddenly dealing with a group of thugs. As always, the characters are wonderful and Crook is outrageous. happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... ⚡️📚💙

This week's book on Kevin's Corner is a new release about a lost hiker on the Appalachian Trail in Maine. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/03/aubr...

Sad news to start the day: Irish author par excellence Ken Bruen is gone. ⚡️📚💙 connachttribune.ie/death-of-gal...

This week's forgotten book is a one-off mystery from a scriptwriter and romance novelist. Elizabeth Tebbetts-Taylor created an unusual detective in a Nez Pas Native American from Oregon. ⚡️📚💙 happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg...

Out today, the fourth book about Argentine investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. ⚡️📚💙https://kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/03/aubrey-nye-hamilton-reviews-best-enemy.html

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Mystery authors auction starts next week! Signed books! Character names! Manuscript reviews! More! ⚡️📚💙 www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...

David Housewright's Rush McKenzie is one of my favorite private investigators. This week's book on Kevin's Corner is his most recent case. ⚡️📚💙 kevintipplescorner.blogspot.com/2025/03/aubr...

Michael Underwood wrote solid traditional mysteries in the last half of the 20th century. His plots are devious and characters lively. This week's forgotten book is his second about Detective Superintendent Simon Manton. #FFB happinessisabook.com/fridays-forg... ⚡️📚💙