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aubreynhamilton.bsky.social
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Former librarian, perpetual reader. Reviewer at Happiness Is a Book and Kevin's Corner. Occasional columnist at Mystery Readers Journal. "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent van Gogh
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Margaret Hinxman was a famous film critic who turned to crime fiction later. Her fourth book is about a journalist who had a lot in common with Hinxman, commuting from the south to London every day, except Hinxman didn't encounter murder on the train. 📚⚡️ 📚💙 happinessisabook.com/the-corpse-n...
The Corpse Now Arriving by Margaret Hinxman
Margaret Hinxman (1924-2018) was a preeminent UK film critic who turned to writing crime fiction after a wildly successful journalistic career. Her obituary in The Guardian describes her cinematic …
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Yet when I see responses to requests for suggestions of new authors to read, Barnard never seems to come up. He is simply too good to lose sight of.
Only if the books they read interest you. I joined a book group in my neighborhood and their selections don't appeal to me at all. So back to the internet for reading inspiration.....
I discovered recently that I missed some of the early books in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series and I am checking them out of the library and reading them one by one. I will also be looking for my next Forgotten Friday book and reading it.
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...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Seven Black Chessmen by John Huntingdon
Gerald William Phillips (1884-1956) graduated from Oxford and took orders, then became a teacher and a Shakespearean scholar. The following biography is taken from the archives of Westminster Schoo…
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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...
Murder at the Blue Owl by Lee Martin
Anne Wingate (Martha Anne Guice Wingate) (September 4, 1943 – September 2, 2021) wrote multiple mystery series, including one of my all-time favorites. Under the name Lee Martin, she created the me…
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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...
With Flowers that Fell by M. R. D. Meek
Margaret Reid Duncan Gilloran (1918–2009) was born in Scotland. She worked in an office for a few years before attending law school and practicing as a solicitor. After her retirement she combined …
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Cheapest option is on the reprint publisher's website, www.coachwhipbooks.com/mystery-auth.... The ebook is about $5; it won't have the introduction but it does have the entire text of the book, which is all I care about.
Mystery Authors (F)
Classic detective and crime fiction
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I was surprised how tight the plot was. I was not expecting it at all.
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... 📚⚡️ 📚💙
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Dangerous Sea by David Roberts
I don’t know that these books are forgotten as much as no one seems to have heard of them to begin with. After working as an editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O&#8…
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