The weekly assembly of reviews and citations of books and related literature not yet or no longer given much attention, usually less than they deserve. Most weeks hosted by Patti Abbott, but this week and next hosted here. Other activities (notably an airport drop-off) will punctuate my morning, so later reviews will be added over the course of the day.
Patricia Abbott: Tommy Red by Charlie Stella
Sergio Angelini: The Girl on the Bestseller List by "Vin Packer" (Marijane Meaker) (Bill Crider on the novel from 2009)
Mark Baker: D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
Yvette Banek: The Case of the Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
The BareBones Crew: EC Comics, January 1951
Joe Barone: The Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home
Bernadette: The Petrona Award shortlist
Les Blatt: Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton
Elgin Bleecker: The Westies by T.J. English
Lawrence Block: Four Lives at the Crossroads by "Andrew Shaw" (Lawrence Block)
Ben Boulden: Shadow Games by Ed Gorman
Brian Busby: He Will Return by Helen Dickson Reynolds
Bill Crider: The Man Inside by W. Watts Biggers; PaperBack (a series of back-cover blurbs)
Scott A. Cupp: Lone Star Planet (aka A Planet for Texans) by H. Beam Piper and John J. Maguire
Martin Edwards: The Secret Poisoner by Linda Stratmann
Fred Fitch: The Hunter by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake)
Paul Fraser: Impulse #5, July 1966, edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Barry Gardner: Neon Dancers by Matt and Bonnie Taylor
"John Grant": The Old Man in the Corner by (Baroness) Emmuska Orczy
Rich Horton: Peter by F. Hopkinson Smith
Jerry House: The Bullwinkle Mother Moose Nursery Pomes by Al Kilgore; Marionettes, Inc. by Ray Bradbury
Tracy K: Frozen Assets by Quentin Bates; The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
George Kelley: Science Fiction of the '50s edited by Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander
Margot Kinberg: Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper
Rob Kitchin: Billy Boyle by James Benn
K. A. Laity: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
B. V. Lawson: The President's Mystery Plot, edited by Fulton Oursler from an idea by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Steve Lewis: Poisons Unknown by Frank Kane; The Case of Sonya Wayward by Michael Innes; A Dance in the Street by Charles Shea LeMone
Todd Mason: Fantasy-fiction magazines in English, August 1957; magazines edited by Howard Browne
Thomas McNulty: Lawless by Ed Gorman
John F. Norris: The Hammersmith Maggot by William Mole
Matt Paust: Too Late to Die by Bill Crider; Die a Little by Megan Abbott
James Reasoner: Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
Kurt Reichenbach: Infinity Science Fiction, June 1958, edited by Larry Shaw
Richard Robinson: The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey
Gerard Saylor: Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge
Steve Scott: "The Rabbit Gets a Gun" by John D. MacDonald
Dan Stumpf: The 10:30 from Marseille by Sebastien Japrisot
Kevin Tipple: Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman
"TomCat": Murder Abroad by E. R. Punshon
Prashant Trikannad: I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise by Erma Bombeck
David Vineyard: The Illustrated Detective Magazine, September 1931; "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" by Robert A. Heinlein
Thanks for hosting matey - look amazing already!
ReplyDeleteThanks, and for contributing...I need to read and review that one...
ReplyDeleteThanks for picking up mine, Todd.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kevin. "Just the job, sir."
ReplyDeleteThank you for subbing for Patti Abbott. You always do a great job! And, I appreciate your forwarding Barry Malzberg's comments.
ReplyDeleteI have one this week - "D" is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-d-is-for-deadbeat-by-sue.html
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your taking the helm, Todd, and putting together such an attractive package. I apologize to all readers who read the first version of my entry before I could get to the library this morning to fix it. I don't have wifi in my apt., and was horrified when I looked the piece over last nite and saw how raggedy it was. It's fixed now, and I pledge to try harder henceforth to give myself more time to proofread before posting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including Frozen Assets, but I also have a more recent post on Guns of Navarone at Bitter Tea and Mystery if you want to include it.
ReplyDeleteYou have some lovely covers in this post.
Tracy--I took the judgement call on preferring FROZEN ASSETS as the more overlooked book than the MacLean. Thanks...I do try to find some decent imagery for the posts.
ReplyDeleteMatt--thanks...I skimmed yours, I admit, so didn't see the shameful bits if they were there!
Mark...thanks!
George--not at all, and thank you. Interesting to know that Charlie Stella had sought representation by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency back when...
That's fine, Todd. I will trust your choice in the future.
ReplyDeleteAlways room for more, Tracy, and if you have a post you want to be the FFB post, simply tag it or let me know.
ReplyDeleteI am sooooo behind! I'll definitely be reading a few of these, and with a little luck, I'll take a peek at all of them. An amazing-looking assortment, as usual.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Looking forward to more of yours here, too...I'm behind on everything, myself.
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