Sweet Freedom

This bi-month'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. Hope to not skip February again, as this is going to be a huge file...personally, the worst thing to have happened in the recent interregnum was the sudden death of Paul Barnett, who did most of his writing, including his book and film reviews and more on Noirish, as by "John Grant"...and was a friend. His reviews (which he had stockpiled in reserve; new ones are still appearing at this time) are hardly the only thing we'll miss here.

I'd stopped on 6 March when I learned of the death of Earl Kemp. Picking it up again now. (I tend to go alphabetically, though the first off a multi-author website will disrupt the strictness of that alpha sequence.) We get to miss jazz pianist McCoy Tyner today, too.

Patricia Abbott: Thursday's Children by Nicci French; T he Black Mountain by Rex Stout; Patricia Moyes's Henry Tibbett novels

Sergio Angelini: 26 crime fiction novels not to miss; A Closed Book by Gilbert Adair

Brian Bigelow: Angels in Ealing by Eileen Winncroft; My Hey-Day Or, the Crack-up of the International Set by Princess Tulip Murphy as told to Virginia Faulkner; The Barbarians by Virginia Faulkner ; Drives My Green Age by Josephine Carson

Paul Bishop: Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Les Blatt: Murder en Route by Brian Flynn; The Lucky Stiff by Phoebe Atwood Taylor; Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford

Elgin Bleecker: An Order for Murder by Steve Fisher; Under a Raging Moon by Frank Zafiro

Joachim Boaz: The Bleeding Man and Other Stories by "Craig Strete"; The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak

Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds and Nowhere to Run by Ron Faust

Sara Boyle: The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch

Brian Busby: 10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day; Maria Monk; The Man from Nowhere by Anna T. Sadlier; Not for Every Eye aka Le libraire by Gérard Bessette (translated by Glen Shortliffe)

Bob Byrne: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, November 1955, edited by Sumner Blossom

Jean-Christophe Cloutier: Ann Petry

Douglas Cohen: Realms of Fantasy, August 1995, edited by Shawna McCarthy

Don D'Ammassa: John Barth

Liz Dexter: Fresh from the Country by "Miss Read" (Dora Jessie Saint)

Scott Edelman: Ramsey Campbell

Martin Edwards: The Tooth and the Nail by Bill Ballinger; Hell for Heather by Pat Flower; Dance for a Dead Uncle by Charles Asheton; I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher; Murder is a Kill-Joy by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; Sudden Fear by Edna Sherry; Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer; Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes

Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, April 1953; March 1953 part 2; March 1953 part 1

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics: August 1976; September 1976; July 1976; June 1976; Warren horror comics, January-March 1971; November 1970-January 1971; September-November 1970

Barry Ergang: Drum Beat--Madrid by Stephen Marlowe; Tangled Trails by William MacLeod Raine; "Breathe No More, My Lovely" aka "Breathe No More" by John D. MacDonald, Detective Tales, May 1950

Aubrey Hamilton: Murder in Stained Glass by Margaret Armstrong; Unholy Writ by David Williams; Innocent Bystander by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana Craig); Slayground by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly; Blood Type by Stephen Greenleaf ; The Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood; Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage; Lesser Evils by Joe Flanagan; Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein; Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel

Mark K. Kelley: A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Needle by "Hal Clement" (Harry Stubbs)

John O'Neill: Great Work of Time by John Crowley; Best of the current Small Press Magazines; Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy

Jack Seabrook: "The Crystal Trench" by A. E. W. Mason, The Strand Magazine, December 1915, edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith; "Little White Frock" by Stacy Aumonier, The Story-Teller, November 1920, edited by Newman Flower; "The Buick Saloon" by Mary O'Malley, The Cornhill Magazine, June 1930, edited by Leonard Huxley

Kevin Tipple: Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein

A. J. Wright: "Loot Island" by Tom Roan, Detective Fiction Weekly, 19 September 1936