You'll Be Sorry!; The Lost Caesar; Four Past Four

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:

Samuel Rogers: I can tell you that this is NOT the 19th century English poet, about whom much seems to be known. About this Samuel Rogers, I found nothing other than a list of six books, all mysteries or suspense, it seems.

Ruth Fenisong: Lifelong New Yorker and Leftist playwright, Fenisong began writing mysteries during the Second World War. She wrote 13 novels in her Gridley Nelson series, as well as ten stand alone novels. Fenisong died in 1978. The Lost Caesar was also published under the title Death is a Gold Coin.

Roy Vickers: This was the most common of four pen names for William Edward Vickers, a prolific writer from the early to mid 20th century. Over his career, Vickers wrote at least 67 novels, 84 short stories, and hundreds of nonfiction articles for magazines and newspapers. All were about crime. Vickers' first book was published in 1914, and in 1934 he began publishing a series of stories about the fictitious Department of Dead Ends at Scotland Yard. Vickers died in 1965. This is the third of three in Vickers' James Segrove series.