Death in Fashion; Miracles Take a Little Longer; There Was a Little Girl

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:

Marian Babson: Babson had a writing career that ran from 1971 to 2012. She passed away in 2017. She wrote three short detective series, the longest being the seven edition Trixie and Evangeline series, but Babson also wrote 32 stand alone detective novels. Altogether Babson published 45 novels.

Roy Harley Lewis: Lewis runs a service called "Bookfinders", a service for obtaining rare and out of print books. In his spare time Lewis has penned six mystery novels and eleven works of nonfiction. His novels are in two short series, and his nonfiction deals with murders, ghosts and, somewhat logically, book collecting. This is the second of two novels featuring Henry Franklin.

Eileen Dewhurst: Dewhurst published about 25 books, with nine being stand alone novels. She also published three detective series, featuring Neil Carter (5), Helen Markham-Johnson (2) and Phyllida Moon (9). Her last book was published in 2003. This is the fourth Neil Carter novel.