FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 2 August 2019

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. 

Frank Babics: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Mark Baker: The Secret of Shadow Ranch by "Carolyn Keene" (in this case, Mildred Benson)

Brad Bigelow: Opium Fogs by Rosemary Tonks 

Les Blatt: The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories edited by Michael Sims 

Joachim Boaz: Dark December by Alfred Coppel 

Brian Busby: Christie Redfern's Troubles by Margaret Murray Robertson

Martin Edwards: Death in a Deck Chair by K. K. Beck

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics, July/August 1967, edited by Archie Goodwin

Will Errickson: Feast by Graham Masterton 

José Ignacio Escribano: Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate 

Curtis Evans: Further notes on Nigel Morland 

Olman Feelyus: The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson; The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins  

Paul Fraser: The "Mongolian Wizard" stories by Michael Swanwick

John Grant: The Collector by Anne-Laure Thiéblemont (translated by Sophie Weiner); The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel (translated by Alison Anderson); The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (translated by Philip Roughton)

Aubrey Hamilton: Safe Secret by Harry Carmichael; Gunrunner by Graham Ison

Bev Hankins: Tenant for the Tomb by "Anthony Gilbert" (Lucy Malleson)

Rich Horton: SF Commentary edited and published by Bruce Gillespie; Kim Newman's short fiction; M. C. Pease's fiction; Alvaro Zinos-Amaro's fiction 

Jerry House: "Three Investigators" novels The Secret of the Crooked Cat by "William Arden" (Dennis Lynds) and The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon by "Nick West" (Kin Platt); SF Horizons 1 and The Unfriendly Future edited by Tom Boardman, Jr.; The Authentic Book of Space edited by H. J. Campbell; Gateway to the Stars edited by John Carnell; The Nightmare Reader, V. 1 (paperback reprint in two volumes) edited by Peter Haining; Best Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (edited by E. F. Bleiler); The Best SF Stories from New Worlds edited by Michael Moorcock; The Secret of Holm Peel and Other Strange Stories by Sax Rohmer; Out of This World 3 and 5 edited by Anabel Williams-Ellis and Mably Owen

Kate Jackson: The Advent of Murder by Martha Ockley; Speak No Evil by Mignon G. Eberhart; Home to Roost by Andrew Garve

Tracy K: Benighted by J. B. Priestley; Broken Harbor by Tana French 

Colman Keane: The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay 

George Kelley: The New Edgar Winners edited by Martin H. Greenberg 

Joe Kenney: Mafia: Operation Loan Shark by "Don Romano" (in this case, Paul Eden); Dakota #2: Red Revenge by Gilbert Ralston 

Dana King: The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh; The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett

Rob Kitchin: An Empty Death by Laura Wilson; The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean  

Kate Laity: Twerk by Isobel Blackthorn 

B. V. Lawson: Miss Pink at the Edge of the World by Gwen Moffat

Evan Lewis: "The Evil Eye of Count Ducrie" written by Joe Millard, illustrated by Reed Crandall, Ken Shannon: Crime-Busting Private Eye, October 1951, edited by Alfred Grenet

Steve Lewis: "Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern" by Bill Pronzini (originally in An Eye for Justice edited by Robert Randisi); The Dead of Winter by Michael Allegretto; The Case of the Dowager's Etchings by Rufus King

Thomas Mallon: "The Need of Money" by Booth Tarkington

Todd Mason: Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (PBS short version, beginning broadcast version tonight, 2 August 2019 as an American Masters episode); Carol Emshwiller remembrance: Michael Swanwick's contribution

Francis Nevins: The Virgin Kills and other work by Raoul Whitfield 

John F. Norris: The D. A. Calls It Murder by Erle Stanley Gardner; the novels of Dulcie Gray

John O'Neill: Machines and Men by Keith Roberts; The Perfect Lover by Christopher Priest 

Matt Paust: Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman 

Mildred Perkins: Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

James Reasoner: Long Day in Latigo by "Wesley Ray" (Ray Gaulden); The Twisted Mistress by Ennis Willie 

Richard Robinson: Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein 

Sandra Ruttan: Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico by Steven Torres 

Gerard Saylor: Handsome Johnny by Lee Server; William Wegman: Being Human by William Wegman and William E. Ewing

Jack Seabrook: "Ten Minutes from Now" by Jack Ritchie, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 1963, edited by Richard E. Decker  

Steven H Silver: "Encased in the Amber of Eternity" by Robert Frazier; Janus edited and published by Janice Bogstad and Jeanne Gomoll  

Victoria Silverwolf: Simulacron-3 aka Counterfeit World by Daniel Galouye

Michael Swanwick: Carol Emshwiller Remembered

"TomKat": The Back-Seat Murder by Herman Landon; "Circus in the Sky" by Edward D. Hoch (from Scenes of Crime edited by Martin Edwards)

David Vineyard: Angelique and the Sultan by Sergeanne Golan 

Adam Wagner: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Bill Wallace: Platoon by "Adam Singer" (David Karp)