Friday, July 26, 2019

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 26 July 2019


This week's books and more, 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); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments. 

Patricia Abbott: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd

Mark Baker: The Closers by Michael Connelly


Brad Bigelow: In Our Metropolis by Phyllis Livingstone


Les Blatt: Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon (translated by Howard Curtis)


Joachim Boaz: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight 


Z. Z. Claybourne: The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust 


Gabe Dybing: "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934, edited by Farnsworth Wright


Martin Edwards: ...And Presumed Dead by Lucille Fletcher; More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes edited by Nick Rennison


Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics: July 1952 


Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics: May 1975 


Stephen Erickson: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer


Will Errickson: A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle


José Ignacio Escribano: A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill 


Curtis Evans: Nigel Morland, and his career (and correcting a bit of the previous essay)


Olman Feelyus: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 


Paul Fraser: Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950, edited by Mary Gnaedinger 


Barry Gardner: Original Sin by P. D. James

John Grant: Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky 

(translated by Sandra Smith); Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel (translated by Linda Coverdale);  Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain (translated by Jane Aitken & Emily Boyce)

Aubrey Hamilton: Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth; Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara; Dead Angler by Victoria Houston


James W. Harris: The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl

Rich Horton: Dwellers of the Deep by "K. M. O'Donnell" (Barry M. Malzberg); The Gates of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr.; Daybreak--2250 A. D. (aka Star Man's Son 2250 A. D., etc.) by Andre Norton (nee Alice Norton); Beyond Earth's Gates by "Lewis Padgett" (in this case, apparently to suggest Henry Kuttner) and C. L. Moore; Fran Wilde short stories; C. M. Kornbluth stories; The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison; Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans


Jerry House: Pstalemate by "Lester del Rey" (Leonard Knapp) 


Kate Jackson: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers; Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong; A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell 


Nick Jones: The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff


Tracy K: Might As Well Be Dead by Rex Stout; Allmen and Butterflies by Martin Suter 


Colman Keane: The Dead Never Forget (aka Bragg's Lunch) by Jack Lynch 


George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg 


Joe Kenney: Real Endings by Gene Duris(?); Moscow at High Noon is the Target by "Paul Richards" (in this case, Chet Cunningham and Dan Streib)


Rob Kitchin: The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum


Kate Laity: Symposium by Muriel Spark; Libby by Milt Machlin; Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse by Georges Simenon (translated by  Ros Schwartz); Cari Mora by Thomas Harris 


B. V. Lawson: The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin


Evan Lewis: Life on Other Worlds by Murphy Anderson (Planet Comics, 1940s)


Steve Lewis: "Night Birds" by Erle Stanley Gardner, Argosy Weekly, August 5 1933; "The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl" by Stuart Palmer, Mystery, November 1933, edited by Hugh Weir 

Gideon Marcus: Galaxy, June 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl 


John F. Norris: Possession by L. P. Davies

John O'Neill: Carol Emshwiller and the Rediscovery Award; Science Fiction of the '40s edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph Olander  


Matt Paust: People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman


James Reasoner: Twisted Mistress by Ennis Willie

Richard Robinson: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein 


Sandra Ruttan: The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty


Gerard Saylor: Midnight Rambler by James Swain


Kerrie Smith: The Day the Lies Began by Kylie Kaden


Werner Sollors: "The Bouquet" by 
Charles W. Chesnutt

Dan Stumpf: The Counterfeit Traitor by Alexander Klein


"TomCat": "The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery" by Jon L. Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1969, edited by Frederic Dannay (as EQ)


Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, February 1926, edited by Farnsworth Wright

6 comments:

Mathew Paust said...

Todd, the link you have for Tracy's blog is for a different one. Here's the one for hers: http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2019/07/might-as-well-be-dead-rex-stout.html

Todd Mason said...

Thanks, Matt. Tracy's had been "colonized" by Kate's last link, before I added Nick's...

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks, Todd!

Todd Mason said...

As always, Jack, you're welcome and thank you.

Paul Fraser said...

Thanks Todd.

Todd Mason said...

No problem, Paul...thank you.