Friday, February 23, 2018

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more: 23 February 2018

This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from)(and, even more problematically, minor work from major writers--disappointing books this week from Fritz Leiber [the less popular of his two worst novels], Shirley Hazzard, Brian Aldiss)--certainly, this week as most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. Patti Abbott will host again next week. 


Yvette Banek: Home Sweet Homicide by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana Craig)

Bernadette: The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Les Blatt: The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes

Ben Boulden: Bill Crider in 2015; Dead Reckoning by Sam Llewellyn

Brian Busby: Lust Planet by W. E. D. Ross

Steve Carper: The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber

Bill Crider: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1962, edited by Avram Davidson; Fantastic, July 1960, edited by Cele Goldsmith

Jose Cruz, Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: EC Comics, October 1954

Tim Davis: DeKok and the Dead Harlequin by A. C. Baantjer (translated by H. G. Smittenaar)

Martin Edwards: The Doors Open by Michael Gilbert


Will Errickson: Descent by Ron Dee; cover paintings by Peter Caras; The Flesh Eaters by L. A. Morse

Curtis Evans: The Daughter of the House by Carolyn Wells

Paul Frasier: Galaxy's Edge, January-February 2016, edited by Mike Resnick

Barry Gardner: The Tony Hillerman Companion edited by Martin H Greenberg

John Grant: The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz;The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard 

Bev Hankins: Beverly Gray's Secret by Clair Blank; Another Woman's House by Mignon G. Eberhart

Rich Horton: Vanguard from Alpha by Brian W. Aldiss; The Changeling Worlds by Kenneth Bulmer; Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, December 1961, edited by Cele Goldsmith

Jerry House: The Roadmender by "Michael Fairless" (Margaret Barber)

Janet Hutchings: Bill Crider

Kate Jackson: The Deadly Dowager by Edwin Greenwood

Tracy K: Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

Colman Keane: Wolf Tickets by Ray Banks

George Kelley: The Men from the Boys by "Ed Lacy" (Leonard Zinberg)

Joe Kenney: The Great Spy Race by Adam Diment

Margot Kinberg: The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

Rob Kitchin: The Deep Dark Sleep by Craig Russell

B.V. Lawson: The Mystery of Mary by Grace Livingston Hill

D. F. Lewis: Great British Horror 2: Dark Satanic Mills edited by Steve J. Shaw

Evan Lewis: The Murder of Abraham Lincoln by Rick Geary

Steve Lewis: The Confession of Brother Haluin by "Ellis Peters" (Edith Pargeter); "The Problem of the Miraculous Jar" by Edward D. Hoch; Red Curtain by "Duncan Tyler" (Don Smith?); Hangman's Tide by John Buxton Hilton

Todd Mason: It's a Gothic Because We Say It's a Gothic, slightly expanded

James Nicholl: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler; Black No More by George S. Schuyler 

John O'Neill: The Sacred Hunt by Michelle West (aka Michelle Sugara); The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

Juri Nummelin: The Golden Silence by Paul Johnston

Matt Paust: Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith

James Reasoner: The Men from the Boys by "Ed Lacy" (Leonard Zinberg); Texas Rangers, August 1949

Gerard Saylor: Deviant by Harold Schechter

Steven Silver: "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W. E. B. Du Bois; "Nobody's Home" by Joanna Russ; "Black Mist" by Richard Lupoff

Kerrie Smith: Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham

Dan Stumpf: The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich

Kevin Tipple: Map of Murder: Original Stories of Mystery and Suspense edited by Susan Budavari and Suzanne Flaig

"TomCat": The Case of the Monday Murders by Christopher Bush

Danielle Torres: Three Floors Up by Eshkol Neva (translated by Sondra Silverstein)

David Vineyard: The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon

Sharon Wilfong: Who? by Algis Budrys



8 comments:

Yvette said...

My post is now up, Todd. Thanks for your yeoman service. :)

Todd Mason said...

Thank you, Yvette. It wouldn't be a week without you.

Mathew Paust said...

Mein! Mein! https://mdpaust.blogspot.com/2018/02/stallion-gate-martin-cruz-smith.html

Todd Mason said...

Matt, oddly enough, I put yours in. I wonder how it got overwritten. Sorry about that. Perhaps a distraction of one sort or another intruded.

Mathew Paust said...

Hey, with all the work you do on these things,Todd, crap can happen. Thanks for taking it all on!

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks for the listing, Todd!

Todd Mason said...

You're both quite welcome, and thank you.

Sharon Wilfong said...

This looks like a great list from an era that wrote Science Fiction I like. I am going to peruse your list and see if I come up with some goodies to find and buy.