Welcome to this week's list of links to reviews of overlooked (infrequently deservedly) books and stories, by the reviewers detailed below. I'm filling in this week and next for Patti Abbott, who'll be back at in two weeks. Please let me know if I've missed your review...and thanks to all the contributors and all you readers...always feel free to comment on the blogs!
Sergio Angelini: Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice and Claude Askew
Frank Babics: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January 1969, edited by Ernest M. Hutter
Les Blatt: The Sussex Downs Murder by "John Bude" (Ernest C. Elmore)
Brian Busby: poetry: "Gay Page"; James Gay
Bil Crider: "War of the Giant Apes" by "Alexander Blade"
Robert (R. T.) Davis: The Gardens of the Dead by William Brodrick
William Deeck: Murder Loves Company by John Mersereau
Martin Edwards: Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith (Nick Jones last year.)
Barry Ergang (hosted by Kevin Tipple): The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver
Ed Gorman (and Gillian Reynolds): The Charles Paris novels by Simon Brett
Dashiell Hammett (hosted by Evan Lewis): The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
John Hegenberger: Nightmares by Robert Bloch
Rich Horton: Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers
Jerry House: Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill by Trina Robbins
Randy Johnson: The Blaster #1: The Girl with the Dynamite Bangs by Lou Cameron
Tracy K: Wall of Eyes by Margaret Millar (Brian Busby, 2012)
George Kelley: The Drover novels by Bill Granger
Margot Kinberg: Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
B.V. Lawson: Death on Remand by John Michael Evelyn
Steve Lewis: Fit to Kill by "Brett Halliday"
Patrick Murtha: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
Neer: The Shudders by Anthony Abbot; Officially Dead by Quentin Reynolds; The Setting Sun by Bart Moore-Gibert
Mark Nevins: East of A by Russell Atwood
John F. Norris: A Clue for Mr. Fortune by H. C. Bailey
James Reasoner: Operator #5: The Invisible Empire by "Curtis Steele" (Frederick C. Davis)
Karyn Reeves: Remove the Bodies by Elizabeth Ferrars
Richard Robinson: Enter the Lion by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright
Petter Rozovsky: Uneasy Street by "Wade Miller"
Gerard Saylor: The Big Bang by Mickey Spillane and Max Allen Collins
Jack Seabrook: "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" by Roald Dahl
Kerrie Smith: Take My Breath Away by Martin Edwards
Prashant Trikannad: "The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury
Hi Todd,
ReplyDeleteCan you please include mine for this week?
AHMM January 1969
Thanks,
Frank
Thanks, Frank! Done.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great crop - thanks for doing the honours Todd!
ReplyDeleteIt is a fine set, even given the Alexander Blade story (which makes a fine example), I'd agree. And thanks for your contribution!
ReplyDeleteI have one this week. Mike Hammer in THE BIG BANG. http://booksareforsquares.blogspot.com/2015/04/audioed-big-bang-by-mickey-spillane-and.html
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gerard...I really should've checked yours and Frank's pages...
ReplyDeleteTodd, thanks for all the links. Lots to read this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks for contrinuting. Prashant...and isn't there always?
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