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.
Patricia Abbott: Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Mark Baker: Forget Me Knot by Mary Marks
Brad Bigelow: The Rabbit's Umbrella by George Plimpton
Les Blatt: Night of the Jabberwock by Fredric Brown
Joachim Boaz: A Man of Double Deed by Leonard Daventry; Cancerqueen by Tommaso Landolfi (translated by Raymond Rosenthal)
Ben Boulden: my favorite short crime fiction read in 2018
Joe Brosnan: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin (Karyn Reeves on the Ellin)
Bob Byrne: 'Rogues in the House" by Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, January 1934, edited by Farnsworth Wright
Martin Edwards: Night's Black Agent by John Bingham
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics, September/October 1966
Will Errickson: Dark Forces edited by Kirby McCauley
José Ignacio Escribano: Game of Mirrors by Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
Curtis Evans: The Molly Maguires and The Valley of Fear by A. C. Doyle among other fiction; Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft and Had I But Known plotting
Olman Feelyus: Maneater by Ted Willis
Paul Fraser: Tor.com Short Fiction, January/February 2019, edited by Ellen Datlow, Lindsey Hall, Beth Meacham, Marco Palmieri and Ann VanderMeer
John Grant: Take Two at Bedtime (aka Deadly Duo) by Margery Allingham; The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins; Follow Her Home by Steph Cha
Aubrey Hamilton: The Emperor's Snuffbox by John Dickson Carr
Rich Horton: Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick; Adam-Troy Castro short fiction; New Dreams This Morning edited by James Blish
Jerry House: Super-Mystery Comics #19, January 1944, produced by Lou Ferstadt et al.
Kate Jackson: Dead March in Three Keys by "Peter Curtis" (Norah Lofts); A Man Called Jones by Julian Symons; An Afternoon to Kill by Shelley Smith
Tracy K: On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Colman Keane: The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
George Kelley: Madball by Fredric Brown; The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stephan Collins
Joe Kenney: The Red Horse Caper by L. V. Roper
Rob Kitchin: The Secret Listeners by Sinclair McKay; The Last Time We Spoke by Fiona Sussman
B. V. Lawson: The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, edited by Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler
Evan Lewis: "Jon Jarl of the Space Patrol" prose vignettes (for periodical rates postage qualification) by Otto Binder (usually as by "Eando" Binder), Captain Marvel Adventures, 1946
Steve Lewis: Moonmilk and Murder by Aaron Marc Stein; "The Case of the Emerald Sky" by Eric Ambler, The Sketch, 10 July 1940; "The Shadow's Shadow" by Wyndham Martyn, Flynn's Weekly Detective, 14 May 1927; The Recycled Citizen by Charlotte MacLeod; "Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" by B(renda) W. Clough, Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1988; Some Like It Cool by Robert Kyle
Todd Mason: The Ed Gorman/Martin H. Greenberg Best Crime Fiction of the Year Annuals
John F. Norris: Ominous Star by Rae Foley
Matt Paust: Baffled in Boston by Gary Provost
James Reasoner: "Terror Wears No Shoes" by "Keith Robeson" (Lester Dent), Doc Savage Science Detective, May-June 1948
Richard Robinson: The Minerva Club by Victor Canning
Gerard Saylor: Honky Tonk Samurai by Joe R. Lansdale; Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Jack Seabrook: "Trifles", and "A Jury of Her Peers" (EveryWeek, 5 March 1917) by Susan Glaspell
Steven H Silver: Manly Wade Wellman; Universe 9, edited by Terry Carr
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, June 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: All Our Secrets by Jennifer Lane
Kevin Tipple: Styx and Stone by James W. Ziskin
"TomCat": "The Bizarre Case Expert" by "William Arden" (Dennis Lynds), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1970, edited by Frederic Dannay/"EQ"
Mike Toomey: Give Me That Old Time Detection, Spring 2019
David Vineyard: The Radium Terrors by Albert Dorrington (The Pall Mall Magazine, January-June 1911)
Lisa Yaszek: "The New You" by Kit Reed, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1962, edited by Avram Davidson
I love that cover of Some Like it Cool. I have that paperback edition sitting on a table waiting to be read. Need to do that soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links. I enjoyed your contribution -- the Gorman / Greenberg Crime Fiction annuals.
Thanks again, Todd
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ReplyDeleteThank you, folks...and, Tracy, the more I look into it, the more that the 20-story version of THE DEADLY BRIDE, with the better cover, looks like it might be a phantom book...even those who list the "and 19" stories title with that cover seem to have data on the contents that suggests they actually have the "and 21" volume instead...Amazon's listing with the 19-story cover, when you Look Inside, you're suddenly looking inside the 22-story volume with the cartoonish cover, instead. Not that one should ever be surprised by sloppiness at Amazon.
The link for the Gerald Saylor Honky Tonk Samurai review takes me to the James Reasoner Kenneth Robeson review.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stephen...fixed. Happens rather too easily.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Todd! Happy Memorial Day.
ReplyDeleteThank you...HMD indeed. As we are poised to have more pointless war declared in our name.
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