http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress A Blog for Readers & Collectors of Crime & Mystery Fiction Books Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:12:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A short potted history of the author Cyril Hare Cyril Hare is the pseudonym of Judge Gordon Clark, who was born at Mickleham near Dorking in 1900. He was educated at Rugby, and New College, Oxford, where he took a 'First' in History. http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/cyril-hare-a-brief-biography John Dickson Carr ~ Some Information in the Authors Own Words John Dickson Carr says: 'Of Scottish descent, I was born in America in 1906. They sent me to school and university with the idea of turning me into a barrister like my father. But I wanted to write detective stories. ... http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/john-dickson-carr-autobiography-information Christianna Brand was born and brought up in Malaya. She came home to England to be educated in a convent and at the age of seventeen, her father having lost all his money, started to earn her own living. http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/christianna-brand-biography-information-about-the-author A small publishers biography of the Golden Age crime and mystery author Freeman Wills Crofts Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin in 1879 and educated at Campbell College, Belfast. He was trained in Civil Engineering and began his working life on a railway in Northern Ireland. His knowledge of railway working ... http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/freeman-wills-crofts-information John Ferguson was of Scottish descent and lived in various places before moving South to Lymington. He was born in 1873 and the author's middle name was Alexander. He wrote 11 mystery novels and also some plays we believe including at least one of note, Campbell of Kilmohr. http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/john-ferguson-books-biography Laurence Meynell is an author well-regarded by both book collectors and readers of mystery fiction. http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/laurence-meynell-books-a-sample-and-some-for-sale A brief synopsis and review of The Twenty Third Man by Gladys Mitchell There they sat round a table in a cave near the top of a mountain on the island of Hombres Muerios - the twenty-three dead kings, masked, embalmed, and clad in their robes of state. http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/the-twenty-third-man-by-gladys-mitchell-synopsis Besides being the gentleman detective whose apartment on West 87th Street, New York, is as well known as Sherlock Holmes' flat in Baker Street, London, and whose father is Inspector Richard Queen of the New York Police Department, Ellery Queen is a writer composed of two individuals, Frederic Dannay and ... http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/ellery-queen-information-about-the-authors-behind-the-name Some background information on G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole G. D. H. Cole, (he only son of a surveyor and estate agent, took 10 books and writing from his schooldays at St. Paul's. After his Oxford days he taught philosophy at Durham University, and then, first, economies and later, politics at ... http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/gdh-and-m-cole-biography-a-brief-history One of the best known Miss Marple mysteries and very collectable - a synopsis, sample and information on how to identify a first edition of Body in the Library by Agatha Christie http://www.detective-fiction.com/wordpress/the-body-in-the-library-by-agatha-christie-first-edition-book