This week, and next, I'm subbing for Patti Abbott, taking a break...we have a few not so obscure titles this week, as frequently, but also no few now-obscure titles by not so obscure writers, or even those writers who were once much more widely-read than they are now...even Erle Stanley Gardner, given the sustained popularity of my quasi-namesake. If I've missed your or someone else's book or other review, please let me know in comments...thanks!
Sergio Angelini: The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Yvette Banek: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Bernadette: The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth
Les Blatt: The Chinese Lake Murders by Robert van Gulik
Elgin Bleecker: Where the Boys Are by Glendon Swarthout
Don Coffin: The Cavalier in White by Marca Muller
Bill Crider: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft edited by August Derleth; Dead Man's Tide by "William Richards" (Day Keene); The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky); The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Butcher's Wife by Owen Cameron; Yellow Dog Contract by Ross Thomas; Brothers Keepers by Donald Westlake
Martin Edwards: Be Kind to the Killer by Henry Wade
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, February-March 1968
Barry Ergang: Mirror Image by Dennis Palumbo
Will Errickson: Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher
Curt Evans: The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein
Fred Fitch: Firebreak by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake)
Elisabeth Grace Foley: Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G. Brinton
Barry Gardner: Alibi for an Actress by Gillian B. Farrell
John Grant: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Woody Haut: The Evenings by Gerard Reeves
Rich Horton: Pink Vodka Blues and Skinny Annie Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jerry House: Sinners and Supermen by William F. Nolan
Tracy K: Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin; Laura by Vera Caspary
George Kelley: Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen 1947-1950 edited by Joseph Goodrich
Joe Kenney: The Spy Who Came to Bed by John Nemec
Margot Kinberg: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Rob Kitchin: Flight from Berlin by David John
B. V. Lawson: Widows Wear Weeds by Erle Stanley Gardner
Evan Lewis: Popular Library westerns
Steve Lewis: The Baron Branches Out by John Creasey
Marcia Muller: Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
John F. Norris: The D. A.'s Daughter by Herman Petersen
John Olsen: Satan's Signature by Theodore Tinsley (originally and rejected as a The Shadow novella, rewritten and published in Clues).
Matt Paust: The Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler
Mildred Perkins: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
James Reasoner: Riders of the Night by Eugene Cunningham
Richard Robinson: The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers
Gerard Saylor: Plaster City by Johnny Shaw
Kerrie Smith: The Pallampur Predicament by Brian Stoddart
"TomCat": Murder Has a Motive by Francis Duncan
9 comments:
Thanks for hefting the load, Todd!
I have an entry today: Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G. Brinton.
Wrong link for Will Erickson. I read the Gallagher novel listed and enjoyed it quite a bit.
Thanks, folks! You've been variously appreciated, added and heeded.
Same to you, old fellow. I assume you're up again next week, or two?
Next week only, barring the flood.
Thanks for the link, Todd.
I see Where the Boys Are described as a "zany new novel". I've only seen the movie, which I recall was more of a comedy-drama that has one major character attempting suicide!
You're welcome, Jack! Kirk, book blurb writers have never been known to pay much attention to the subtleties nor even what's blatant about the books they hope to sell...sell being the salient word in the sentence. And they didn't even get a very good shot of Paula Prentiss for the cover.
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