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Below, the links to this week's selections of insufficiently appreciated and overlooked books (with a few warnings mixed in), with the reviews and citations at the links below. Primary host Patti Abbott will be back to the task next week, if I'm not mistaken. And if I've missed your or someone else's item for this week, please let me know in comments. Thanks very much!
Sergio Angelini: Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White
Yvette Banek: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Joe Barone: To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
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Leigh Buchanan: Cemetery Dance (courtesy Ed Gorman)
Brian Busby: Harlequins and the Current Canadian Crises: The Corpse Came Back by Amelia Long; Firebrand by Rosemary Aubert
Bill Crider: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Martin Edwards: Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
Curt Evans: Suffer a Witch by Nigel Fitzgerald
Ray Garraty: Anarchaos by "Curt Clark" (Donald Westlake)
Ed Gorman: Patricia Highsmith writing for Fawcett Comics
Rich Horton: Random Harvest by James HiltonJerry House: The Goddess of Ganymede by Mike Resnick
Randy Johnson: Blood Kin by Hank J. Kirby
Nick Jones: The Green Man and The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
George Kelley: The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler
Margot Kinberg: The Dying Light by Alison Joseph
Rob Kitchin: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Kate Laity: Meaningful Conversations by Richard Godwin
Heath Lowrance: John Constantine: Hellblazer by Jamie Delano et al.
B.V. Lawson: Murder Intercontinental edited by Cynthia Manson and Kathleen Halligan
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| November,. 1956 |
Steve Lewis: The Deadly Welcome by Ken Rothrock; Death Walks in Scarlet by Hugh Desmond
Barry Malzberg and Richard Moore: The Getaway Car by Donald Westlake
Neer: Books for Halloween; books about Indian royalty
John F. Norris: The Mask of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
John O'Neill: Science Fiction magazine edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes
James Reasoner: The Essential The Tomb of Dracula, Volume 1 by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan et al.
Karyn Reeves: Essays and Poems by G. K. Chesterton
Kelly Robinson: Books for Halloween
Richard Robinson: The Dragon of Lung Wang by "Marion Harvey" (Edward J. Clode)
Gerard Saylor: Eight Black Horses by "Ed McBain"; Rogue Officer by Garry Kilworth
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| April 1956 |
Dan Stumpf: Night of the Black Horror by Victor Norwood; Warlock by Oakley Hall
Kevin Tipple: Texas Vigilante by Bill Crider
"TomCat": The Forest Spirit by Jakob van Schevichaven
Prashant Trikannad: "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by "Bradner Bruckner" (Ed Earl Repp), Amazing Stories, October 1940
Tracy K: Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
David Vineyard: Courier to Marrakesh by Valentine Williams
THE
SPINNERS' BOOK OF FICTION
BY
Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin
Geraldine Bonner, Mary Halleck Foote
Eleanor Gates, James Hopper, Jack London
Bailey Millard, Miriam Michelson, W. C. Morrow
Frank Norris, Henry Milner Rideout
Charles Warren Stoddard, Isobel Strong
Richard Walton Tully and
Herman Whitaker
Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin
Geraldine Bonner, Mary Halleck Foote
Eleanor Gates, James Hopper, Jack London
Bailey Millard, Miriam Michelson, W. C. Morrow
Frank Norris, Henry Milner Rideout
Charles Warren Stoddard, Isobel Strong
Richard Walton Tully and
Herman Whitaker
With a dedicatory poem by
George Sterling
George Sterling
COLLECTED BY THE
BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE
SPINNERS' CLUB
BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE
SPINNERS' CLUB
Illustrated by
Lillie V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon
Albertine Randall Wheelan, Merle Johnson
E. Almond Withrow and Gordon Ross
Initials and decorations by
Spencer Wright
Lillie V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon
Albertine Randall Wheelan, Merle Johnson
E. Almond Withrow and Gordon Ross
Initials and decorations by
Spencer Wright
PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK
Published in behalf
of The Spinners' Benefit Fund
Ina D. Coolbrith
First Beneficiary
———
Copyright, 1907
by Paul Elder and Company
of The Spinners' Benefit Fund
Ina D. Coolbrith
First Beneficiary
———
Copyright, 1907
by Paul Elder and Company
Todd--Sergio's link opens Yvette's review.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deb...sometimes, Firefox and Blogger don't like to play well together.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for including my review, Todd. I appreciate you putting this all together.
ReplyDeleteNot at all, Tracy...thanks for contributing!
ReplyDeleteMine is up, Mike Resnick's THE GODDESS OF GANYMEDE.
ReplyDeleteGot it! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI remember the Saturday morning I bought that 30th Anniversary Amazing. I'd had to wait until I got my paper route money.
ReplyDeleteYow. Sorry it wasn't just a scrap better. But, oddly, Cele Goldsmith seems to have let Sam Moskowitz take over the 35th anniversary issue...
ReplyDeletePlease add my link to the list:
ReplyDeletehttp://longwalkwithbooks.blogspot.com/2014/10/anarchaos.html
thanks!
OK, Ray...but of all Westlake books I've encountered, that's the only one I hate (hate) despise (hate).
ReplyDeleteHey, Anon...you might continue to add comments, but as long as you continue to be anonymous, they're going away as soon as I see them.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Ray, thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Todd, great hosting (but OK, I'll nitpick as the reference to Hitchcock in the SPIRAL STAIRCASE cover might be confusing for those who don't know that THE LADY VANISHED was based on a book of hers) Cheers mate :)
ReplyDeleteNot a nitpick...in the tumult of the day, I conflated the two novels...now fixed, thanks.
ReplyDeleteMy God, it's the end of Daylight Savings. I already get up in the dark (7:30) and now it will be darker (um, more dark) and then dark again by why, 4:00? Does all this mean more reading time, or less?
ReplyDeleteBlaming the bad link on Blogger and Firefox is pretty lame, why don't you just fix the link?
ReplyDeleteRichard, the reading time is what we make of it, I gather...I hope the eyes are now back to something like normal. It's the other tasks we set for ourselves, I guess, that will determine what we get to do with literature...and the tasks that life sets for us.
ReplyDeleteTodd, thanks for featuring The Spinners' Book of Fiction.
ReplyDeleteNot at all, Ron...it's an interesting example of such a project, and features some major and interesting talent of the time...I wonder how many Benefit books have preceded it. Thanks for drawing our attention to it.
ReplyDeleteOK, "Blaine" the carper, I blame the interaction of the two programs because at times it will cancel links or "colonize" them unexpectedly. And, sadly, it isn't always obvious when this has happened. But if you weren't trolling, you would've noted that the link was fixed as soon as I was aware of the problem.
ReplyDeleteSo, since your current function seems to be to complain about matters that actually don't affect you in any vital way, our conversation might just be at an end.
"Blaine" left a rude and probably factually incorrect message about the link to Sergio's review not working for him (presumably)...is anyone else having any problem with that link or the others? I fixed it as soon as Deb noted it, and it works fine for me now...but I would like to know if it is not working for anyone else at the moment. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I made a mistake and I apologize. It's Rob Kitchin: Night Soldiers by Alan Furst that still opens to margotkinberg.wordpress.com. I'm surprised no one else has noticed it. And sorry if you think criticism is being rude.
ReplyDeleteWell, first, thanks for pointing out which link you actually meant...it was corrupted through the same bug as Sergio's had been, and is now fixed. Secondly, I'm sorry you think simply making snotty and previously anonymous remarks can be classed as criticism; criticism has some substance to it. Acting as if a blogger Owes you a post when and how you like it falls into another category.
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