Friday's "Forgotten" Books; the links to the reviews for 30 June 2017

This Friday's crop of reviews of books, and magazines and more, that the contributors feel might warrant more attention than they've received or received of late (except for those which are warnings, very few this week). A small lot of fiction being adapted for television drama this week. A few contributors might be added over the course of the day, as they upload their reviews...if I've missed yours or someone else's, please let me know in comments. Thanks, everyone! And please spare a thought for those feeling the weight of poor health and other burdens, near and dear to several contributors this week.

Patti Abbott should be back to gathering the links next Friday, and, as always, it's been a pleasure to spell her.  Todd Mason

Mark Baker: Counterfeit Conspiracies by Ritter Ames

Yvette Banek: Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts 

Joe Barone: The Mountains Have a Secret by Arthur W. Upfield 

Les Blatt: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Stories from the Golden Age of Gaslight Crime edited by Nick Rennison

John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, July 1962 edited by Cele Goldsmith

Brian Busby: Cry Hallelujah! by Kenneth Orvis

Bill Crider: Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse; The Killing Breed by "Frank Leslie" (Peter Brandvold); Kiss Off the Dead by "Garrity" (David J. Gerrity)

Jose Cruz, Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook: EC Comics for Mayl 1953; Enfantino and Seabrook: DC War Comics June/July 1969

Scott A. Cupp: Libriomancer by Jim Hines

Martin Edwards: The Little Walls by Winston Graham; The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Texts by Martin Edwards (blog tour)

Barry Ergang: The Sixteenth Man by Thomas B. Sawyer

Will Errickson: Scorpion by Michael R. Linaker

Curt Evans: Murder in Pastiche by Marion Manwaring

C. Coleman Finlay: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1997, edited by Gordon Van Gelder

Fred Fitch: Watch Your Back! by Donald Westlake

Paul Fraser: Startling Stories, September 1951, edited by Samuel Mines

Barry Gardner: The Best Defense by Kate Wilhelm

John Grant: The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)(introduction by James Sallis); A Fine and Private Place by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)

Rich Horton: The Leopard Woman by Stewart Edward White; Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, October 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith

Jeanne: The Big Kitty by Claire Donally

Jerry House: Stone, MIA Hunter: Desert Death Raid by "Jack Buchanan" (Bill Crider)

Tracy K: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by Leslie Thomas

George Kelley: Turn on the Heat by "A. A. Fair" (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Joe Kenney: Soldato! by "Al Conroy" (Marvin H. Albert)

Margot Kinberg: Not a Creature Was Stirring by Jane Haddam

Rob Kitchin: Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris

Richard Krause: Strange Pursuit (originally Madman on a Drum) by "N. R. de Mexico" (Robert Bragg)

Frank Lawrence: Charles Ricketts: Subtle and Fantastic Decorator by Stephen Calloway

B. V. Lawson: The Summer School Mystery by "Josephine Bell" (Doris Collier Ball)

Steve Lewis: Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie; The Necklace of Skulls by Ivor Drummond; Guilty Minds by Joseph Finder; Gila City by Bennett Foster; Rafferty: Cannon's Mouth by W. Glenn Duncan; When They Kill Your Wife by "John Crowe" (Dennis Lynds)

John ONeill: The Worlds of Jack Vance (probably edited by Vance or Frederik Pohl); The Best of C. L. Moore edited by "Lester Del Rey" (Leonard Knapp); Agents of Insight by Steven Klaper

Matt Paust: The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope

Mildred Perkins: A Zombie's History of the United States by "Dr. Worm Miller" (Josh Miller)

James Reasoner: Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman by Gardner F. Fox; Famous Western, April 1958, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes

Richard Robinson: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie

Gerard Saylor: After the First Death by Lawrence Block; Round Mountain by Castle Freeman, Jr.

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, July 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith

Kerry Smith: Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen (translated by Don Bartlett)

Kevin R. Tipple: Relic Tech by Terry W. Ervin II

"TomKat": He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr

A. J. Wright: The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

Bill Crider's back cover image of Strange Pursuit