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Welcome to She Done It. I'm Caroline Crampton.

And welcome back to Green Penguin Book Club, a series within She Done It that documents my journey of reading and discussing every crime or green title from the main penguin series, In Order.

Our book today is The Sandfield Scandal by Richard Covern, Penguin Number 90.

This book was first published in 1929, and it then joined the Green Penguin series in March

1937. It was the fourth novel to appear under the name Richard Kavern, which was the pseudonym of one

Clifford James Wheeler Hoskin, a journalist who lived from 1882 to 1950. He began his crime

fiction career in 1926, with Carteret's Cure, and then proceeded to put out 11 other novels

before the end of 1934, an incredibly prolific period for any writer.

One of these 1930s The Pretender appeared under his own name, Clifford Hoskin, rather than the Covern

Pen name. Before he wrapped up his crime fiction enterprise in 1944, he also published several

volumes of short stories. He created two recurring

police detective characters, Inspector Mace and Inspector Art Effects, although neither appears in the

novel we're looking at today. He had good publishers in both the UK and the US, and some of his work

has drawn favourable comparisons to writers like Henry Wade and Freeman

Will's Crofts. And yet today, the name Richard Cavern is almost entirely unknown, even to the

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