This week's books and more, 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...an apparently coincidental pair of reviews of an Ira Levin short story...and sparing a thought for the late Vonda McIntyre and that today, as Rich Horton reminds us, would've been the 98th birthday of the recently late Carol Emshwiller.
Patricia Abbott: Be True to Your School: A Diary of 1964 by Bob Greene; Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Elgin Bleecker: High Sierra by W. R. Burnett
Joachim Boaz: Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, June 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Sleaze by L. A. Morse
Brian Busby: Canadian Mystery Stories edited by Alberto Manguel
Peter Enfantino: Warren Comics, March/April 1966
Will Errickson: Panther! by Alan Ryan
José Ignacio Escribano: "The Nail" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Curt Evans: Speaker of Mandarin by Ruth Rendell
Olman Feelyus: Cinnamon Skin by John D. MacDonald
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Mariah Fredericks: God Save the Mark by Donald Westlake
Barry Gardner: A Long Walk Up the Water Slide by Don Winslow
John Grant: The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin (translation by Marlene Delargy)
Aubrey Hamilton: Music Tells All by E. R. Punshon
Rich Horton: Mister Boots by Carol Emshwiller; Sabre Tooth by Peter O'Donnell; James Patrick Kelly stories; Barrington J. Bayley novels; Sarah Pinsker stories; Five Against Arlane by Tom Purdom; Lord of the Green Planet by Emil Petaja; Locus magazine, 1972 and onward
Jerry House: Kiss for a Killerby "G. G. Fickling" (Gloria and Forrest Fickling); Boy Comics, August 1943, edited by Charles Biro Kate Jackson: The Seven Deadly Sisters by Patricia McGerr
Tracy K: Tarnished Icon by Stuart Kaminsky
Colman Keane: The Stain in the Snow and Act of Passion by Georges Simenon (translations by John Petrie and Louise Varèse, respectively); Atlanta Deathwatch by Ralph Dennis
George Kelley: The Paperback Fanatic, #41 March 2019, edited by Justin Marriott
Joe Kenney: Maryjane Tonight at Angels Twelve by Martin Caidin
Rob Kitchin: Overkill by Vanda Symon
B. V. Lawson: Blood Lines by Ruth Rendell
Evan Lewis: "Something to Remember" by Frederick Nebel, Collier's, 30 November 1940, edited by William Ludlow Chenery
Steve Lewis: "Sylvia" by Ira Levin, Manhunt, April 1955, edited by "John McCloud" (Scott Meredith); "The Long Silence" by Donald Noakes, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1972, edited by Ben Bova; Fletch and the Widow Bradley by Gregory Mcdonald; Red Cent by Robert CampbellTodd Mason: What did Jorge Luis Borges and Mike Connors have in common with Simon Templar, "The Saint"? (Not to mention Kookie...): Great American Publications in 1960, slightly augmented...
John F. Norris: Murder Draws a Line by Willetta Ann Barber and R. F. Schabelitz
John O'Neill: Weirdbook Annual #2: Cthulhu, 2019, edited by Doug Draa
Matt Paust: The Night the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright
J. Kingston Pierce: The Moving Target by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar); the covers
James Reasoner: Captain Blood #1: By Pirate's Blood by "Richard Silver" (Kenneth Bulmer)
Richard Robinson: Space Pioneers edited by Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio
Gerard Saylor: Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
Jack Seabrook: "Sylvia" by Ira Levin, Manhunt, April 1955, edited by "John McCloud" (Scott Meredith)
Steven Silver: Jem by Frederik Pohl; George O. Smith Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, June 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Dan Stumpf: Gypsy, Go Home by William O'Farrell
Kevin Tipple: Kings of Colorado by David E. Hilton
"TomCat": The 3-13 Murders by Thomas B. Black
David Vineyard: "Men About to Die" by Judson F. Philips, Detective Fiction Weekly, February 2, 1935
Another bumper crop of goodies -- many thanks, Todd! And many thanks for the mention of my notes on The Darkest Room.
ReplyDeleteThank you, John, and glad you're getting on with the current vision situation.
ReplyDeleteThanks, for the links, Todd. That Honey West cover immediately brings back memories of many similar TV tie in PBs from the '60s. The covers made them look so good, but they often weren't very good reading. I used to have some from The Avengers.
ReplyDeleteIt was a rare tie-in in that decade that was more than barely readable. Some did surprise us. Bu the Ficklings' books at least were the original source of the Honey West character. Thank you!
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