Created by Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) and Denis Green (1905-1954) Wealthy gentleman sleuth-about-town GREGORY HOOD was an antiquities importer whose search for various treasures took him all over the world, and whose acquisitions inevitably had interesting histories that were somehow always associated with a current-day mystery — a mystery that Hood, of course, would end up solving. … Continue reading Gregory Hood (The Casebook of Gregory Hood)
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Fergus O’Breen
Created by Anthony Boucher Pseudonym of William A. P. White Other pseudonyms include Theo Durrant, Herman W. Mudgett & H. H. Holmes (1911-68) It's hard to believe that a guy with a monicker like FERGUS O'BREEN is Irish, but IT'S TRUE!!! I know. I'm as shocked as you are. He's also one of the most … Continue reading Fergus O’Breen
Nick Noble
Created by Anthony Boucher Pseudonym of William A. P. White Other pseudonyms Theo Durrant & H. H. Holmes (1911-1968); Noted (and prolific) mystery critic Anthony Boucher (that's who the Bouchercon is named after) somehow also managed to find the time to squeeze out several novels and some sixty short stories during his lifetime, about equally split … Continue reading Nick Noble
My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher
My Bookshelf Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited and with introductions by Anthony Boucher This early anthology (1950) from the Mystery Writers of America may have seemed to be just the usual grab bag of stories from all across the genre, and indeed the cover of the original hard cover edition promised short stories "of fictional detectives... … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher