CHRISTINE POULSON Fear Stalks the Village Archives

A Forgotten Woman Crime Novelist

Posted on Jun 19, 2017 in Bodies From the Library, British Library, Ethel Lina White, Fear Stalks the Village, Hitchcock, She Faded into Air, The Lady Vanishes, The Spiral Staircase, The Wheel Spins, Wax | 12 Comments

‘Have you locked up, Nurse Cherry?’ ‘Yes, Nurse Silver.’ ‘Every door, every window?’ ‘Yes, yes.’ Yet even as she shot home the last bolt of the front door, at the back of Nurse Cherry’s mind was a vague misgiving. She had forgotten – something. She was young and pretty, but her expression was anxious. While […]

Ethel Lina White: underrated GA writer?

Posted on Aug 31, 2015 in Ethel Lina White, Fear Stalks the Village, Hitchcock, The Lady Vanished, The Spiral Staircase, The Wheel Turns, Wax | 2 Comments

I am often alerted to a book I might enjoy by my good blogfriend, Moira, over at Clothesinbooks.com and that was the case with Ethel Lina White’s Fear Stalks the Village. You can see her review here: http://bit.ly/1JrsBCs. As I happened I already had a ‘box set’ of White’s novels on my e-reader and this […]