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New GA writer leads
12 Feb 2025 03:04 pmThat's Golden Age mysteries or detective stories.
The other day I listened to a delightful radio play called Appleby's End by Michael Innes, a Scottish writer who published a number of detective stories as JIM Stewart, apparently. I will definitely check them out. It was a fun humor/satire adventure. With John Hurt.
And I've started one of JS Fletcher's GA books, 1922's The Middle of Things, which I happened to notice existed in a nice Standard Ebooks edition. I'm having a great time with it, which is good because it's prevented me from impatience as I'm waiting for the Harriet Rutland mysteries I ordered to get here. It's definitely a bit Victorian flavored, though the electricity and cars and other minor references place it in the Edwardian period at earliest. I was assuming 1910ish until I checked the copyright. It doesn't feel 20s the way many GA mysteries from that time do, but then, it may well have been written in the 1910s and simply published in 1922. (Fletcher's career began in the Victorian era.)
The other day I listened to a delightful radio play called Appleby's End by Michael Innes, a Scottish writer who published a number of detective stories as JIM Stewart, apparently. I will definitely check them out. It was a fun humor/satire adventure. With John Hurt.
And I've started one of JS Fletcher's GA books, 1922's The Middle of Things, which I happened to notice existed in a nice Standard Ebooks edition. I'm having a great time with it, which is good because it's prevented me from impatience as I'm waiting for the Harriet Rutland mysteries I ordered to get here. It's definitely a bit Victorian flavored, though the electricity and cars and other minor references place it in the Edwardian period at earliest. I was assuming 1910ish until I checked the copyright. It doesn't feel 20s the way many GA mysteries from that time do, but then, it may well have been written in the 1910s and simply published in 1922. (Fletcher's career began in the Victorian era.)
