Hammett's early story "Arson Plus" gets some supplementary attention this week...watch for the asterisks***.
Terribly sorry for the delay in posting...a bad and busy week didn't let up on Friday morning. Todd Mason
Patricia Abbott: The Name of Game is Death by Dan J. Marlowe
Stacy Alesi: The C List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Michael Davitt Bell: "The Passing of Sister Barrett" by Sarah Orne Jewett, Cosmopolitan, May 1892, edited by William Dean Howells
Brad Bigelow: As It Was in the Beginning by G. E. Trevelyan
Les Blatt: Any Shape or Form by Elizabeth Daly; N or M? by Agatha Christie
Joachim Boaz: A Wrinkle in the Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) by "John Christopher" (Christopher Youd)
Ben Boulden: The Name of the Game is Death and One Endless Hour by Dan J. Marlowe
Brian Busby: Where to begin with Margaret Millar; "September Winds" by A. M. Stephen
Bob Byrne: Holmes on the Range et seq. by Steve Hockensmith
Martin Edwards: The Innocent Mrs. Duff by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, September 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, August 1975
Will Errickson: Prime Evil edited by Douglas E. Winter
José Ignacio Escribano: The Case of the Crumpled Knave by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); "Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett (as by "Peter Collinson"), The Black Mask, 1 October 1923, edited by George W. Sutton, Jr.*
Curtis Evans: Dorothy Cole Meade...and her novels
Olman Feelyus: The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly; The Powder Barrell by William Haggard
John M. Floyd: The Sands of Kalahari by William Mulvihill
Paul Fraser: Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1951, edited by H. L. Gold
Barry Gardner: Icewater Mansions by Doug Allyn
John Grant: New Year's Eve by Lisa Grunwald
Aubrey Hamilton: Black Beadle by E. C. R. Lorac; The Defense by Steve Cavanagh
Bev Hankins: The Holmes/Dracula File by Fred Saberhagen; And Hope to Die by Richard Powell; Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rich Horton: Energumen edited by Susan Wood and Mike Glicksohn; Rick Wilber stories; Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn; Sleeping Planet by William R. Burnett, Jr., Analog Science Fact-->Science Fiction, July, August & September 1964, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Chris Willrich stories
Jerry House: Love Among the Ruins by Evelyn Waugh
Kate Jackson: Groaning Spinney by Gladys Mitchell; Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks edited and annotated by John Curran; The Crimson in the Purple by Holly Roth; Cold Steal by Alice Tilton; CADS (Crime And Detective Stories), September 2019, edited and published by Geoff Bradley
Tracy K: Murder with Pictures by George Harmon Coxe; August reads
Colman Keane: King Solomon's Carpet by "Barbara Vine" (Ruth Rendell)
George Kelley: Marune: Alastor 933 by Jack Vance; A God in Chains by Matthew Hughes; Paperback Parade, August 2019, edited and published by Gary Lovisi; "The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin"
Joe Kenney: To Kill a Snowman by Charles Miron; The Vigilante #5: Detroit: Dead End Delivery by "V. J. Santiago" (Robert Lory)
Rob Kitchen: The Smoke by Tony Broadbent
B. V. Lawson: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong [Lewi]
Xavier Lechard: Death is No Sportsman (among his works) by Cyril Hare
Evan Lewis: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic strip panels scripted by Paul S. Newman and drawn by Ray Bailey
Steve Lewis: Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh; Elephants in the Distance by Daniel Stashower; Death of a Citizen by Donald Hamilton; The Last Straw by Ione Sandberg Shriber
Mike S. Lind: The Chalk Circle Man by "Fred Vargas" (Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau)
*Steve Marcus: "Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett (as by "Peter Collinson")
Francis M. Nevins: Baynard Kendrick's works
Martin Quinn: A Cold, Red Sunrise by Stuart Kaminsky
John F. Norris: Case of the Cold Coquette by "Jonathan Craig" (Frank E. Smith)
John O'Neill: Cold Iron and Sister to the Rain by Melissa Michaels
Matt Paust: Evergreen by Howard Owen
James Reasoner: Gambling Man by Clifton Adams
L. J. Roberts: Louisiana Longshot by Jana DeLeon
Richard Robinson: Chicken Every Sunday by Rosemary Taylor (illustrated by Donald Mackay)
Sandra Ruttan: Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Gerard Saylor: How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
Steven H Silver: "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn, Amazons!, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; "Enemy Mine" by Barry B. Longyear, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1979, edited by George H. Scithers
Kevin Tipple: The Big Bad City by "Ed McBain" (Evan Hunter)
"TomCat": The Rilloby Fair Mystery by Enid Blyton; The Murders Near Mapleton by Bryan Flynn
Prashant Trikannad: The Ganesha Arati Book: Understanding Sukhakarta Dukhaharta edited by Chaitra Patel
Bill Wallace: Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner
A. J. Wright: Thunder Mountain Review, Spring 1979, edited by Steven Ford Brown
*Terry Zobeck: "Arson Plus" by Dashiell Hammett (as by "Peter Collinson")
Thanks, Todd! Are you attending the Nostalgia Con next weekend?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jack! I wasn't aware of NostalgiaCon, so should Go Look It Up...but suspect not, as I will be removing spam comments from "Darcy/Darci" repeatedly, apparently...
ReplyDeleteWell, as it's across the continent, I can firmly say No...I see a somehow linked event is in Philadelphia in mid-September...I might miss that as well, if it's a typical media autograph-fest. I've managed to miss PhilCons that these years happen a mile away from me...and have caught only two NoirCons...
ReplyDeleteThe Nostalgia Con is in Maryland, so not that far!
ReplyDeleteAh! I didn't find that one online...gave up after the LA item with that name this weekend.
ReplyDeleteGood thing I didn't try, since our bank, TD Bank, was busy putting holds on credit and bank cards if they engaged in such "suspicious activity" as using the cards in the pump readers at gas stations, apparently beginning on Friday. Would've been fun trying to buy a membership or a hotel room lease on arrival. (Hint: Don't use TD Bank.)