Showing posts with label obscure writer project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obscure writer project. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

*2 Detectives: Astro, the Master of Mysteries, by Gelett Burgess and Dr. Xavier Wycherley, The Mind-Reader, by Max Rittenberg

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9781616461034 Coachwhip Publications, 2011 622 pp paperback My latest stop along my journey into crime/mystery fiction of yeste...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

from the British reading room: Murder Underground, by Mavis Doriel Hay

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97807122357258 British Library Crime Classics, 2014 originally published 1934 286 pp paperback " The annals of murder are ridd...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

In which "Meddlesome Matty [nearly] came to a bad end" : Murder in Stained Glass, by Margaret Armstrong

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9780993235702 Pepik Books, 2015 originally published in 1939 182 pp paperback Murder in Stained Glass  is the opener of a new serie...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

about as obscure as it gets, folks: The Dead Letter and The Figure Eight, by Metta Fuller Victor (aka Seeley Register)

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0822331659 Duke University Press, 2003 388 pp paperback In the realm of American crime writing, this author is about as obscure a fin...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

back to the past #17: Death in the Cards, by Ann T. Smith

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9781434407382 Wildside books, 2010 originally published 1945, Phoenix Press 256 pp paperback I love these Wildside editions -- I ha...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

*back to the past, #16: The Bus Station Murders, by Louisa Revell

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Macmillan, 1947 183 pp hardcover <==  The very first thing you might notice about this book is its ugly cover. When you compare it...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

back to the past #15: The Fifth Dagger, by Dorothy Quick

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1947 Charles Scribner's Sons 202 pp hardcover " She always got what she wanted, but when she had it, she destroyed it....
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

back to the past #14: Murder in the Mist, by Zelda Popkin

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00735103909 Replica Books, 2001 originally published 1940, Lippincott 286 pp paperback " A country inn is a percolator. News s...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

back to the past: #13: The Will and the Deed, by Dorothy Ogburn

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1434466825 Wildside Books originally published 1935, Dodd, Mead and Company 264 pp paperback (reproduction of original) I'll ju...
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Friday, June 5, 2015

back to the past: #12 - The Sleepless Men, by E.H. Nisot

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Doubleday Crime Club, 1959 189 pp hardcover The Sleepless Men was written by E.H. Nisot, a pseudonym of Mavis Elizabeth Hocking Nisot...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

back to the past: Motto for Murder, by Merlda Mace (1943)

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Julian Messner, Inc., 1943 213 pp hardcover Merlda Mace is the pseudonym of Madeleine McCoy, but beyond that, I can find very little i...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

a Marie Belloc Lowndes doubleheader: The Lodger and Letty Lynton

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Marie Belloc Lowndes is really not that obscure of a crime-writing woman writer, because she is largely  remembered for her book The Lodger...
Friday, April 3, 2015

the "cold-war" years: A Cold Coming, by Mary Kelly

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Walker and Company, 1968 originally published 1956, by  Secker & Warburg 239 pp hardcover Before even opening this book, I could...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Harriet, by Elizabeth Jenkins

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9781941147719 Valancourt Books, 2015 197 pp paperback My hat is off to Valancourt for bringing this book back into print. Originally...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

a double blast from the past: The Punt Murder, by Aceituna Griffin and Miasma, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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Back to exploring more obscure women crime writers, I ran across two books that have luckily been reprinted to make them widely available to...