The weekly assembly of reviews and citations of books and related literature not yet or no longer given much attention, or at least usually less than they deserve. Hosted usually by founder Patti Abbott, who will resume doing so next week. Sergio Angelini: Of All the Bloody Cheek et seq. by Frank McAuliffe
Yvette Banek: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
the Bare Bones quartet: EC Comics, April 1951
Les Blatt: Calendar of Crime by "Ellery Queen"
Elgin Bleecker: A Man Called Spade by Dashiell Hammett
Brian Busby: Exodus/UK by Robert Rohmer
David Cramner: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov (JF Norris's 2011 review)
Bill Crider: Jackstraw by Ron Faust
Scott A. Cupp: The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
William F. Deeck: Fatal Venture (aka Tragedy of the Hollow) by Freeman Wills Crofts; Shadow on the Water by Elizabeth Cadell
Martin Edwards: Murderer at Large by Donald Landels Henderson; A Graveyard to Let by "Carter Dickson" (John Dickson Carr); Ricki Thomas
Will Errickson: The Year's Best Horror Stories, Series VII, edited by Gerald W. Page (the series)
Curt Evans: The Conqueror Inn by E. R. Punshon
Fred Fitch: Tomorrow's Crimes by Donald Westlake
Elizabeth Foxwell: Westminster Detective Library, curated by Leroy Lad Panek and Mary Bendel-Simso
Paul Fraser: Science Fantasy #68, edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli and Keith Roberts
Adam Gee: All Fall Down by James Leo Herlihy
John Grant: The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Rich Horton: 200 Years to Christmas by J. T. McIntosh; Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Fontenay; The City of Lillies by Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes
Jerry House: "Mistrust, or Blanche and Osbright" by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Tracy K.: Murder Among Friends by "Elizabeth/E.X. Ferrars"
George Kelley: Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alistair Reynolds edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer
Margot Kinberg: Dead Angler by Victoria Houston
Rob Kitchin: A Killing Frost by R. D. Wingfield
Richard Krauss: The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett (edited by "Ellery Queen"/Frederic Dannay)(Bestseller Mystery #62)
B. V. Lawson: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
Steve Lewis: Operation Counterpunch by Dan J. Marlowe; Who is the Next? by Henry Kitchell Webster; Emerald Flash by Charles Knief
Todd Mason: Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural by Darrell Schweitzer et al. (Milford Series #48)
John F. Norris: The Third Eye by Ethel Lina White
John O'Neill: The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr (useful, some when finally revised, comments follow, by half-asleep me among others more coherent)
Mathew Paust: Waltzing Cowboys by Sarah Collins Honenberger
Mildred Perkins: Leviathan Wakes by "James S. A. Corey" (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
James Reasoner: The Man from Nowhere by T. T. Flynn
Richard Robinson: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Gerard Saylor: Black Horse Creek by Charles G. West
Steve Scott: "You Remember Jeanie" by John D. MacDonald
Kerrie Smith: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Kevin Tipple: "You Can Call Me Lucky" by Lawrence Block
Prashant Trikannad: Patricia Abbott
Todd, thanks for including the link to Patti's interview. I have great fun doing the blogger (and author) interviews. I don't know when I'm going to find time to read the reviews of all these eclectic books.
ReplyDeleteNot at all, Prashant...and one reads the ones that particularly catch the eye...and then goes onto others if and when one wants to!
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