Friday’s Forgotten Book: Day of the Arrow by Philip Loraine (1964) #ReadIndies

Upcoming Scottish painter, James Lindsay, runs into Francoise de Montfaucon, Marquise de Bellac, and wife of Philippe de Montfaucon, Marquis de Bellac, in Paris. Once he had been hopelessly in love with her and had even proposed to her repeatedly but she had married the titled nobleman who had been friend and room-mate of James. …

Two books by Joan Fleming: Miss Bones (1959) & The Chill and the Kill (1964)

I read Joan Fleming for the first time last year because the cover of her book, The Chill and the Kill, had me intrigued when I first read about the book at John Norris' iconic Pretty Sinister Books. The cover with its serpentine female figure reminded me of the Indian legend of the shape-shifting Nagins, …

Friday Forgotten Book of Summer: The Strange Blue Yawl by Lucille Fletcher (1964)

John Waldo Leeds lives with his beautiful young wife Mary in a remote cottage near the mouth of the Chesapeake, trying to work on his musical compositions (he has earlier tried to be a racing-car driver and a painter) when their blissful existence comes crashing down with a scream. One night, even as John has …