Beneath the Stains of Time: Puzzle in Porcelain (1945) by Elizabeth Gresham (writing as "Robin Grey")

Beneath the Stains of Time: Puzzle in Porcelain (1945) by Elizabeth Gresham (w...: "Robin Grey" was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Fenner Gresham , of whom not much is known today, except that she was involved with th...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Golden Box (1942) by Frances Crane: Frances Crane , " a small town girl who became a sophisticated world traveler ," was an American mystery novelist who wrote thirty...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Paradise Affair (2021) by Bill Pronzini

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Paradise Affair (2021) by Bill Pronzini: In 2005, Bill Pronzini revived his two historical gumshoes, John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter, who sold their professional detective ser...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death of a Tall Man (1946) by Frances and Richard Lockridge

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death of a Tall Man (1946) by Frances and Richard ...: Richard and Frances Lockridge were a mystery writing couple who, more or less, accidentally created one of the most endearing American dete...

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Tough One to Lose (1972) by Tony Kenrick

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Tough One to Lose (1972) by Tony Kenrick: Tony Kenrick is an Australian author who started out in advertising and worked as a copywriter in America, Britain and Canada, but abandone...

Beneath the Stains of Time: When the Old Man Died (1991) by Roger Ormerod

Beneath the Stains of Time: When the Old Man Died (1991) by Roger Ormerod: Previously, I reviewed Roger Ormerod 's last novel in the David Mallin and George Coe series, One Deathless Hour (1981), which ended hi...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Three Taps (1927) by Ronald A. Knox

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Three Taps (1927) by Ronald A. Knox: I obliquely referred to Father Ronald A. Knox's " Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction " (1929) in my review of Ton Vervoort...

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Alibi Too Soon (1987) by Roger Ormerod

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Alibi Too Soon (1987) by Roger Ormerod: Together with Kip Chase , Douglas Clark , Charles Forsyte and Jack Vance , Roger Ormerod belonged to the Lost Generation of detective nove...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder's a Swine (1943) by Nap Lombard

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder's a Swine (1943) by Nap Lombard: Earlier this year, British Library Crime Classics reissued an obscure, long out-of-print and intriguing-sounding mystery, Murder's a Swi...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Key to the Case (1992) by Roger Ormerod

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Key to the Case (1992) by Roger Ormerod: I reviewed two of Roger Ormerod 's late-career novels in January, A Shot at Nothing (1993) and And Hope to Die (1995), which he wrote ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death in the Grand Manor (1970) by Anne Morice

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death in the Grand Manor (1970) by Anne Morice: I've mentioned in the past how the sheer size and scope of detective fiction, published between 1920 and 1960, never ceases to astonish ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Two Hundred Ghost (1956) by Henrietta Hamilton

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Two Hundred Ghost (1956) by Henrietta Hamilton: Hester Denne Shepherd was a British book dealer who used her first-hand experience of antiquarian bookselling as a foundation stone for five...

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Shot at Nothing (1993) by Roger Ormerod

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Shot at Nothing (1993) by Roger Ormerod: Over the past few years, I've read four novels by Roger Ormerod , a jack-of-all-trades and second-string mystery writer, who evidently t...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Demons' Moon (1951) by Colin Robertson

Beneath the Stains of Time: Demons' Moon (1951) by Colin Robertson: I promised in my review of Jerry Coleman's Action Comics story, " The Super-Key to Fort Superman " (1958), that I would don...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Original Sin (1991) by Mary Monica Pulver

Beneath the Stains of Time: Original Sin (1991) by Mary Monica Pulver: Back in December, John Pugmire, of Locked Room International , published the long-awaited Locked Room Murders: Supplement (2019), edited...