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: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd
Mark Baker: The Closers by Michael Connelly
Brad Bigelow: In Our Metropolis by Phyllis Livingstone
Les Blatt: Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon (translated by Howard Curtis)
Joachim Boaz: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight
Z. Z. Claybourne: The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
Gabe Dybing: "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E. Howard, Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934, edited by Farnsworth Wright
Martin Edwards: ...And Presumed Dead by Lucille Fletcher; More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes edited by Nick Rennison
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics: July 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics: May 1975
Stephen Erickson: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
Will Errickson: A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle
José Ignacio Escribano: A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill
Curtis Evans: Nigel Morland, and his career (and correcting a bit of the previous essay)
Olman Feelyus: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Paul Fraser: Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950, edited by Mary Gnaedinger
Barry Gardner: Original Sin by P. D. James
John Grant: Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
(translated by Sandra Smith); Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel (translated by Linda Coverdale); Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain (translated by Jane Aitken & Emily Boyce)
Aubrey Hamilton: Out of the Past by Patricia Wentworth; Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara; Dead Angler by Victoria Houston
James W. Harris: The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl
Rich Horton: Dwellers of the Deep by "K. M. O'Donnell" (Barry M. Malzberg); The Gates of Time by Neal Barrett, Jr.; Daybreak--2250 A. D. (aka Star Man's Son 2250 A. D., etc.) by Andre Norton (nee Alice Norton); Beyond Earth's Gates by "Lewis Padgett" (in this case, apparently to suggest Henry Kuttner) and C. L. Moore; Fran Wilde short stories; C. M. Kornbluth stories; The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison; Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Jerry House: Pstalemate by "Lester del Rey" (Leonard Knapp)
Kate Jackson: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers; Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong; A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Nick Jones: The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff
Tracy K: Might As Well Be Dead by Rex Stout; Allmen and Butterflies by Martin Suter
Colman Keane: The Dead Never Forget (aka Bragg's Lunch) by Jack Lynch
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #11 (1949) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: Real Endings by Gene Duris(?); Moscow at High Noon is the Target by "Paul Richards" (in this case, Chet Cunningham and Dan Streib)
Rob Kitchin: The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum
Kate Laity: Symposium by Muriel Spark; Libby by Milt Machlin; Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse by Georges Simenon (translated by Ros Schwartz); Cari Mora by Thomas Harris
B. V. Lawson: The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin
Evan Lewis: Life on Other Worlds by Murphy Anderson (Planet Comics, 1940s)
Steve Lewis: "Night Birds" by Erle Stanley Gardner, Argosy Weekly, August 5 1933; "The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl" by Stuart Palmer, Mystery, November 1933, edited by Hugh Weir
Gideon Marcus: Galaxy, June 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl
John F. Norris: Possession by L. P. Davies
John O'Neill: Carol Emshwiller and the Rediscovery Award; Science Fiction of the '40s edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph Olander
Matt Paust: People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman
James Reasoner: Twisted Mistress by Ennis Willie
Richard Robinson: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Sandra Ruttan: The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty
Gerard Saylor: Midnight Rambler by James Swain
Kerrie Smith: The Day the Lies Began by Kylie Kaden
Werner Sollors: "The Bouquet" by Charles W. Chesnutt
Dan Stumpf: The Counterfeit Traitor by Alexander Klein
"TomCat": "The Lithuanian Eraser Mystery" by Jon L. Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1969, edited by Frederic Dannay (as EQ)
Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, February 1926, edited by Farnsworth Wright
6 comments:
Todd, the link you have for Tracy's blog is for a different one. Here's the one for hers: http://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2019/07/might-as-well-be-dead-rex-stout.html
Thanks, Matt. Tracy's had been "colonized" by Kate's last link, before I added Nick's...
Thanks, Todd!
As always, Jack, you're welcome and thank you.
Thanks Todd.
No problem, Paul...thank you.
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