Friday, December 25, 2015

Friday's "Forgotten" Books and related work: added links to the reviews (the list your tardy Western Xmas gift)

As "real" Christmas happens on 6 January, nonetheless we will cooperate in our late or very early way with the current post-schism fashion of putting it near the solstice feast days, so as to not let the pagans and all those others have All the fun...and sorry for the delay...ergs at a premium of late.



Sergio Angelini: And All Through the House by "Ed McBain"

Ben Boulden: The Sundown Speech by Loren D. Estleman

Brian Busby: "No Pattern for Life" by Frances Shelley Wees

Bill Crider: "Mr. Pickwick and the Body Snatchers" by Bill Crider (limited time access)

Scott A. Cupp: The Memoirs of Solar Pons by August Derleth

William Deeck: The Deadly Combo by John Farr

Martin Edwards: Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson

Fred Fitch: Castle in the Air by Donald Westlake

Barry Gardner: Sheets, Goats and Soap by John Malcolm

Kaye George: Fighting Chance by B.K. Stevens

Ed Gorman: The Innocent Mrs. Duff by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding


Rich Horton: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J. Locke

Jerry House: Mark Kilby Stands Alone by "Robert Craine Frazer" (John Creasey)

TracyK: The Small World of Murder by Elizabeth Ferrars

George Kelley: Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse

Margot Kinberg: A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart

Rob Kitchin: Rough Riders by Charlie Stella

Kate Laity: "Little Joe the Krampus Met" by K. A. Laity

Steve Lewis: Man Bait by Jack Liston; "The Day of the Bullet" by Staney Ellin

Todd Mason: Howard Browne's magazines at Ziff-Davis, and the related developments

Carol Matic: Blue Willow by Doris Gates

James Reasoner: Christmas Out West edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin Harry Greenberg

John F. Norris: "Advent Ghosts" by John Norris

Gerard Saylor: "Stories from the Secret War" by Terrence M. Burke

Steve Scott: "John D. MacDonald" by David T. Warner

Kevin Tipple: Never Kill a Cat and Other Stories by "Miles Archer"

"TomCat": There May Be Danger by Ianthe Jerrold


Prashant Trikannad: In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward

8 comments:

  1. Good list. I feel derelict. Hosting next Friday, too?

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  2. Rather more promptly, yes. My inability to stay awake is concerning.

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  3. Hi cocoa, low sugar dark chocolate helps.

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  4. There's always deadline fear, and the adrenalin it pumps. More effective for me than anything else. I should have something for you by end of day tomorrow. Working on Robert Pirsig and the sound of a one-lung motorcycle engine coughing.

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  5. Thanks for the shout out! SO much good reading on your list. Lots of sites I missed in my blog reading this month.

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  6. Thank you, Ruth...and I hope you do look in on the books end here, too...

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  7. Looking forward to it, Matt...though Thursday is Monthly Underappreciated Music...I always tie Pirsig in with the likes of Richard Brautigan..if you meet the Buddha on a rice-burner mini-bike, one-stroke him...

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