The Bad Samaritan; Bleeding in the Eye of a Brainstorm; Flowers for His Funeral

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:

Robert Barnard: British writer of 48 novels and collections, plus 5 nonfiction works and editor of three anthologies. Had a number of short detective series, the most significant were the Perry Trethowan series (5 novels) and the Charlie Peace series (11 novels). Barnard died in 2013. This is the fourth Charlie Peace novel.

George Chesbro: Chesbro wrote more than 25 novels and almost 100 short stories. His best known sleuth was Robert "Mongo the Magnificent" Fredrickson, often aided by his brother Garth. Mongo was his stage name in the circus, where he was an acrobat. Mongo also has dwarfism, which makes him rather unique in the hard boiled detective world. Chesbro wrote eleven other novels as well. Chesbro died in 2008. This is the thirteenth of fourteen Mongo Mysteries.

Ann Granger: A former British diplomatic employee, Granger has worked at embassies in many parts of the world. Now a full time writer of mysteries and historical mysteries, she has created four series. The Mitchell and Markby Village series consists of fifteen novels, while the Fran Varady, Inspector Ben Ross and Campbell and Carter series each run seven novels in length. The last two series may still be on-going, as the most recent novels were published in 2019 and 2020. This is the seventh Mitchell and Markby Village novel.