I received a heads-up from Dean Street Press that they are reissuing two lost golden age crime classics by Ianthe Jerrold from 1929-30, both out of print for over eighty years. Jerrold only wrote these two novels in the crime field before moving on to other genres, but her writing nonetheless influenced Dorothy L Sayers, John Dickson Carr and Ngaio Marsh.
The Studio Crime is a London mystery and begins as a fog-bound soiree is about to begin at artist Laurence Newtree's studio. But when his upstairs neighbor is murdered in a seemingly impossible crime, Scotland Yard and the unofficial but resourceful private sleuth John Christmas are called in to solve a baffling and eerie case.
Dead Man's Quarry moves the action to the beautiful border countryside between Herefordshire and Wales where a cycling holiday turns deadly when one of the party is found—shot—at the bottom of a local quarry. John Christmas is once again put into action (along with his forensic assistant, Sydenham Rampson), using his unique sleuthing insights in an ingenious, well-plotted mystery.
FYI, if you enjoy both books and want to get "closer" to the writer and her world, her Elizabethan house Cwmmau in Herefordshire is owned by the National Trust today and available for vacation rentals.
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