This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. ...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...
Patricia Abbott: The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
Paul Bishop: the Hatchet series by "Knox Gordon" (Michael Kasner)
Les Blatt: Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot; Chicks on the Case interview
Elgin Bleecker: Last Year's Man by Paul D. Brazill
Ben Boulden: Novels reissued in 2018
Brian Busby: The Arch-Satirist by Frances de Wolfe Fenwick
Bob Byrne: Not Quite Dead Enough, a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout
Martin Edwards: The Chief Inspector's Statement by Maurice Proctor; The Birdcage by Victor Canning
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Comics Horror, February 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, July 1974
Will Errickson: Child of Hell by William Dobson
José Ignacio Escribano: Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon (translated by Howard Curtis)
Curtis Evans: Black as He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
John Grant: The Archivist by Martha Cooley
Aubrey Hamilton: Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle
Rich Horton: The Blind Worm by Brian M. Stableford; Seed of the Dreamer by Emil Petaja; Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon; "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
Jerry House: The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixteenth Series edited by Edward L. Ferman; Hopalong Cassidy, June 1948
Kate Jackson: Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe; Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
Nick Jones: Trilogy in Jeopardy by Henry Kane; Calamity in Kent by John Rowland; The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler (UK first editions)
Tracy K: Tears of Autumn and The Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry
Colman Keane: They Don't Dance Much by James Ross(Elgin Bleecker's recent review)
George Kelley: The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan
Joe Kenney: The Godfather Killer by Dan Brennan
Margot Kinberg: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; International Women's Day
Rob Kitchin: Clinch by Martin Holmén; 1000 reviews
Richard Lamb: Tribute to My Father: Hugh Lamb
B.V. Lawson: Dover One by Joyce Porter
Evan Lewis: Davy Crockett, Frontier Fighter (1951); True Crime Comics, May 1947; Otto Penzler Auctions: Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler
Steve Lewis: "Shaman" by John Shirley, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1988, edited by Gardner Dozois; The Dutch Shoe Mystery by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee); "Peaches for Mad Molly" by Steven Gould, Analog Science Fact and Fiction, February 1988, edited by Stanley Schmidt
Francis M. Nevins: The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
Jess Nevins: Women writers who influenced H. P. Lovecraft...
John F. Norris: They Walk in Darkness by Gerald Verner
Scott D. Parker: Mascarada Pass by William Colt MacDonald
Matt Paust: Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel
James Reasoner: The Derelict of Skull Shoal: a Doc Savage novella by "Kenneth Robeson" (Lester Dent)
Richard Robinson: The Case of the Substitute Face (a Perry Mason novel) by Erle Stanley Gardner
Gerard Saylor: The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
Steven Silver: "Can These Bones Live?" by Ted Reynolds, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1979, edited by Stanley Schmidt; Death's Master by Tanith Lee
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, September 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: A Stranger in the Family by Robert Barnard
Kevin Tipple: The Branson Beauty by Claire Booth
"TomCat": Death Behind the Door by Norman MacClure
Katherine Tomlinson: Once Upon a Star edited by Anthea Lawson
Danielle Torres: Nothing but the Night by John Williams
David Vineyard: "The Great Ego" by Norman Daniels, Startling Stories, Spring 1944, edited by Oscar J. Friend
Todd – Any chance of adding a Paul D. Brazill novel to today’s list. It is a book that is not old and probably not forgotten but perhaps overlooked? Thanks.
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I think I could stand the strain, Elgin...thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank you! And thanks for doing the list and helping Patti.
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Jose!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for pulling these together, Todd, and thanks for including both of my links for Charles McCarry books.
ReplyDeleteThank you both, Jack and Tracy! Seemed only sensible, Tracy...
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