It's almost eighteen months since I featured Dorothy Bowers in Patti Abbott's series of Forgotten Books, so I thought she was more than due for another mention. She only wrote five novels in a career of great promise that was, sadly, cut short by TB. But they are books of distinct merit, which earned her election to the Detection Club not long before she died.
Shadows Before is an ambitious and elaborately plotted mystery. First published in 1939, it marked a welcome return for Chief...
Published on July 08, 2010 18:32