Inspector Dew of Barshire is told by the Chief Constable that Scotland Yard had contacted him regarding an Irish national, Desmond O’Neill whom they suspect of spying and passing information to the Germans. The Yard had been following O’Neill, but then they lost trace of him. His last known whereabouts were Canford Grange, the estate … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Who Died at the Grange? by Michael Halliday (1942)→| a hot cup of pleasure
Artist John Lumsden is found dead in his studio. The disarray in the studio shows that Lumsden had put up quite a fight before being strangled to death. Enter Scotland Yard detective Charles Blair with Sergeant Harry Dawson. Detectives, according to the author, are of various types: There were jocular detectives, and grim detectives, and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Frame-Up by Andrew Garve (1964)→| a hot cup of pleasure
When Rachel Haskell Dunlop recommends her artist friend, Erich Humphrey, to remodel her ancestral home, Pine Acres, she has no idea that her widowed mother, Marcella Haskell would fall in love with Erich who is fifteen years her junior and wish to marry him. She is livid as are her siblings: Millicent, Raymond, Fred, and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: This Death was Murder by March Evermay (1940)→| a hot cup of pleasure