The Laughing Hangman; The Company She Kept; Red Right Returning

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Edward Marston: One of five pen names used by prolific writer Keith Miles. Author of over 125 works, Marston was by far his favorite pen name. Under this name he wrote 64 historical mystery novels in six series, plus a series of five noels in the Historical Fiction genre. This is the eighth of sixteen in the Nicholas Bracewell series.

Marjorie Eccles: British writer Eccles has produced over 30 novels in the genres of mystery, historical mystery and romantic mystery. Likes those mysteries. She has published under her own name as well as two pen names. She has two mystery series, featuring Gil Mayo (13 books) and Herbert Reardon (4 books). Her most recent novel, in the Reardon series, was published in 2017. This is the sixth Gil Mayo mystery.

Anne St. Edmunds: There seems to be nothing to be found about this author. This seems to be the only book ever published under this name,. It got fairly good reviews, but that didn't result in a second novel.