Saturday, March 7, 2020

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews, the texts, and more: 6/13 March 2020 (and past time)

This bi-month'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. Hope to not skip February again, as this is going to be a huge file...personally, the worst thing to have happened in the recent interregnum was the sudden death of Paul Barnett, who did most of his writing, including his book and film reviews and more on Noirish, as by "John Grant"...and was a friend. His reviews (which he had stockpiled in reserve; new ones are still appearing at this time) are hardly the only thing we'll miss here.

I'd stopped on 6 March when I learned of the death of Earl Kemp. Picking it up again now. (I tend to go alphabetically, though the first off a multi-author website will disrupt the strictness of that alpha sequence.) We get to miss jazz pianist McCoy Tyner today, too. 


Patricia Abbott: Thursday's Children by Nicci French; The Black Mountain by Rex Stout; Patricia Moyes's Henry Tibbett novels

Sergio Angelini: 26 crime fiction novels not to miss; A Closed Book by Gilbert Adair

Brad Bigelow: 
Angels in Ealing by Eileen WinncroftMy Hey-Day Or, the Crack-up of the International Set by Princess Tulip Murphy as told to Virginia Faulkner; The Barbarians by Virginia FaulknerDrives My Green Age by Josephine Carson


Paul Bishop: Six-Gun Justice Podcast

Les Blatt: Murder en Route by Brian Flynn; 
The Lucky Stiff by Phoebe Atwood Taylor; Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford


Elgin Bleecker: An Order for Murder by Steve Fisher; Under a Raging Moon by Frank Zafiro

Joachim Boaz: The Bleeding Man and Other Stories by "Craig Strete"; The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak

Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds and Nowhere to Run by Ron Faust 

Sara Boyle: The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch

Brian Busby: 10 Canadian Books for International Women's Day; 
Maria Monk; The Man from Nowhere by Anna T. Sadlier;  Not for Every Eye aka Le libraire by Gérard Bessette (translated by Glen Shortliffe)


Bob Byrne: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, November 1955, edited by Sumner Blossom