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.
Martin Edwards: The Tooth and the Nail by Bill Ballinger; Hell for Heather by Pat Flower; Dance for a Dead Uncle by Charles Asheton; I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher; Murder is a Kill-Joy by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; Sudden Fear by Edna Sherry; Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer; Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, April 1953; March 1953 part 2; March 1953 part 1
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics: August 1976; September 1976; July 1976; June 1976; Warren horror comics, January-March 1971; November 1970-January 1971; September-November 1970
Barry Ergang: Drum Beat--Madrid by Stephen Marlowe; Tangled Trails by William MacLeod Raine; "Breathe No More, My Lovely" aka "Breathe No More" by John D. MacDonald, Detective Tales, May 1950
Aubrey Hamilton: Murder in Stained Glass by Margaret Armstrong; Unholy Writ by David Williams; Innocent Bystander by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana Craig); Slayground by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly; Blood Type by Stephen Greenleaf; The Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood; Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage; Lesser Evils by Joe Flanagan; Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein; Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel
Mark K. Kelley: A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Needle by "Hal Clement" (Harry Stubbs)
John O'Neill: Great Work of Time by John Crowley; Best of the current Small Press Magazines; Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy
Jack Seabrook: "The Crystal Trench" by A. E. W. Mason, The Strand Magazine, December 1915, edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith; "Little White Frock" by Stacy Aumonier, The Story-Teller, November 1920, edited by Newman Flower; "The Buick Saloon" by Mary O'Malley, The Cornhill Magazine, June 1930, edited by Leonard Huxley
Kevin Tipple: Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein
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 Winncroft; My Hey-Day Or, the Crack-up of the International Set by Princess Tulip Murphy as told to Virginia Faulkner; The Barbarians by Virginia Faulkner; Drives 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 GĂ©rard Bessette (translated by Glen Shortliffe)
Bob Byrne: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, November 1955, edited by Sumner Blossom
Sergio Angelini: 26 crime fiction novels not to miss; A Closed Book by Gilbert Adair
Brad Bigelow: Angels in Ealing by Eileen Winncroft; My Hey-Day Or, the Crack-up of the International Set by Princess Tulip Murphy as told to Virginia Faulkner; The Barbarians by Virginia Faulkner; Drives 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 GĂ©rard Bessette (translated by Glen Shortliffe)
Bob Byrne: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, November 1955, edited by Sumner Blossom
Martin Edwards: The Tooth and the Nail by Bill Ballinger; Hell for Heather by Pat Flower; Dance for a Dead Uncle by Charles Asheton; I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher; Murder is a Kill-Joy by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding; Sudden Fear by Edna Sherry; Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer; Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (proto-Marvel) horror comics, April 1953; March 1953 part 2; March 1953 part 1
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics: August 1976; September 1976; July 1976; June 1976; Warren horror comics, January-March 1971; November 1970-January 1971; September-November 1970
Barry Ergang: Drum Beat--Madrid by Stephen Marlowe; Tangled Trails by William MacLeod Raine; "Breathe No More, My Lovely" aka "Breathe No More" by John D. MacDonald, Detective Tales, May 1950
Aubrey Hamilton: Murder in Stained Glass by Margaret Armstrong; Unholy Writ by David Williams; Innocent Bystander by "Craig Rice" (Georgiana Craig); Slayground by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly; Blood Type by Stephen Greenleaf; The Ice Hunter by Joseph Heywood; Blood of the Wicked by Leighton Gage; Lesser Evils by Joe Flanagan; Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein; Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel
Mark K. Kelley: A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Needle by "Hal Clement" (Harry Stubbs)
John O'Neill: Great Work of Time by John Crowley; Best of the current Small Press Magazines; Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy
Jack Seabrook: "The Crystal Trench" by A. E. W. Mason, The Strand Magazine, December 1915, edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith; "Little White Frock" by Stacy Aumonier, The Story-Teller, November 1920, edited by Newman Flower; "The Buick Saloon" by Mary O'Malley, The Cornhill Magazine, June 1930, edited by Leonard Huxley
Kevin Tipple: Tilt-A-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein
Damn. I hadn't heard about Earl Kemp.
ReplyDeleteA month going by doesn't make it any easier to take, no.
ReplyDeleteNor does the fact that Earl was 90, but still sharp.
Welcome back! I don't know anything about your friend but I'm sorry for your loss.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlie. Hope to finally get monthly music up and running again, soon.
ReplyDeleteEarl and I were acquaintances, and if time had been less tight I would've contributed to Earl and Luis Ortiz's CULT MAGAZINES almost a decade ago (see the flip-through video at end of the post)...Earl was involved in a variety of interesting cultural activities over the decades, and was personally persecuted through prosecution by the Nixon Administration.
He did mostly good and pretty great things.
Welcome back, Todd! I missed your posts.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see you back too, Todd. I was worried about you.
ReplyDeleteI really miss Paul Barnett, who I only knew as John Grant, and only via blogging. I enjoyed his insightful reviews and his humor.
Thanks, Jack, Tracy...Paul was a very good guy, indeed, and an excellent writer and critic.
ReplyDeleteWhen will we see the rest of the FFBs?
ReplyDeleteMore fun arose. Working on it again now.
ReplyDeleteDear Todd
ReplyDeleteHope you and your loved ones are fine.
After a long time, here's my entry for the FFB:
Black-out in Gretley by J.B. Priestley
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/forgotten-book-black-out-in-gretley-by-j-b-priestley-1942/
Have revived my blog and shifted it @wordpress.
Thanks and Take Care.
Neeru
Thanks, Neeru. It's past time I got back on this stick for real. Today's a better day to do so than most of the last several Fridays...sorry, yet again, for the delays.
ReplyDeleteAnd I hope you and your loved ones are doing well, as well!
ReplyDeleteTodd glad to know that you are feeling better now. Thanks for doing this. Must be tough linking up all the entries. Here is mine for today:
ReplyDeleteTwo Novels by Miles Burton
https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/forgotten-books-two-novels-by-miles-burton/
Thanks once again and Stay healthy and happy.