The recent 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.
Liz Dexter: Fresh from the Country by "Miss Read" (Dora Jessie Saint); Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson; Dream of Fair Horses and The Horse of Black Loch by Patricia Leitch
Gabe Dybing: the novels of Tim Powers
Martin Edwards: Murder in Blue by Clifford Wittig; Dead Horse by Walter Satterthwait;
Crossed Skis by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith C. Rivett); the value of book reviewing; The Private Wound by "Nicholas Blake" (C. Day-Lewis); The Widower by [Hilda] Van Siller; Stairway to an Empty Room by Dolores Hitchens; The Empty House by Michael Gilbert; The Crime Against Marcella by George Milner; Top Ten Escapist Crime Reads; The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (translated by Louise Heal Kawai); 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, May 1953 parts 1 and 2; April 1953; March 1953 part 2; March 1953 part 1
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics: November 1976; October 1976; September 1976; August 1976; July 1976; June 1976; Warren horror comics, July-September 1971; May-July 1971; March-May 1971; 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
Will Errickson: Maynard's House by Herman Raucher; The Sweet Taste of Burning by Paul Andreota; Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell; Mary Higgins Clark
José Ignacio Escribano: Rubem Fonseca; Winifred Peck; Dashiell Hammett; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Ernest Bramah; Philip MacDonald; Clayton Rawson; Eden Philpotts; Ronald A. Knox; A.E.W. Mason; C.H.B. Kitchin; Margaret and C.D.H. Cole; "A./Archibald Fielding" (Dorothy Fielding); "Leo Bruce"/Rupert Croft-Cooke; Julian Symons; "Anthony Wynne" (Robert McNair Wilson); Alan Melville; Christopher St. John Sprigg; "Anthony Boucher" (William A. P. White); The Detection Club
Nick Jones: Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Mark R. Kelly: A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Needle by "Hal Clement" (Harry Stubbs); Collision Course by Robert Silverberg; City by Clifford D. Simak
Neeru: The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts; The Great Impersonation by E. Philips Oppenheim; 10 recommended books; Speak Justly of the Dead by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith C. Rivett); Mister Westerby Missing and Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole by "Miles Burton" (Cecil John Street); Blackout at Gretley by J. B. Priestly
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; Talking Man by Terry Bisson; Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley; The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley; The Worlds Trilogy by Joe Haldeman; Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Jack Seabrook: "Change of Address" by Robert Arthur, The Mysterious Traveler Magazine, January 1952, edited by Arthur; "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
James Van Pelt: fantastica short fiction collections, by Kelly Link, Ted Chiang and others
Janet Varney: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Patricia Abbott: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather; The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin; Thursday's Children by Nicci French; The Black Mountain by Rex Stout; Patricia Moyes's Henry Tibbett novels; shelfy selfies
Sergio Angelini: 26 crime fiction novels not to miss; A Closed Book by Gilbert Adair
Frank Babics: Good Evening, Central Laundromat by Jason Heroux; Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Mark Baker: Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Brad Bigelow: Hot-House by G. E. Trevelyan;
some suggestions for the #1920Club readathon, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and others; State of Possession by Edith de Born; Witches' Sabbath by Maurice Sachs; One by One by Penelope Gilliatt; As Love is Deep by Betsey Barton; 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: Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy by Freeman Willis Crofts; Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie; Maigret and the Saturday Caller by Georges Simenon (translated by Tony White); Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams; Puzzle for Players by "Patrick Quentin"(Hugh C. Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb); The Case of the Gilded Fly by "Edmund Crispin" (Robert Montgomery); Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert; The Golden Dagger and Four Strange Women by E. R. Punshon; Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford 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; The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett; Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (translated by Steven T. Murray)
Joachim Boaz: The Bleeding Man and Other Stories by Craig Strete; The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak; The Lights in the Sky are Stars by Fredric Brown; The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell; Waves by M. A. Foster; In Solitary by Garry Kilworth; Electric Forest by Tanith Lee; Burt Shonberg
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli: March 1965; April 1965; May 1965
Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds and Nowhere to Run by Ron Faust; Trouble Man and (as by "Daniel Ransom") Night Caller by Ed Gorman
Sara Boyle: The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch
Brian Busby: Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorehouse; Agnes Maule Machar; 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); Queen Kong by James Moffatt; The Last Canadian by William C. Heine
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
Frank Babics: Good Evening, Central Laundromat by Jason Heroux; Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Mark Baker: Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Brad Bigelow: Hot-House by G. E. Trevelyan;
some suggestions for the #1920Club readathon, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and others; State of Possession by Edith de Born; Witches' Sabbath by Maurice Sachs; One by One by Penelope Gilliatt; As Love is Deep by Betsey Barton; 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: Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy by Freeman Willis Crofts; Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie; Maigret and the Saturday Caller by Georges Simenon (translated by Tony White); Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams; Puzzle for Players by "Patrick Quentin"(Hugh C. Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb); The Case of the Gilded Fly by "Edmund Crispin" (Robert Montgomery); Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert; The Golden Dagger and Four Strange Women by E. R. Punshon; Death of a Frightened Editor by E. and M. A. Radford 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; The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett; Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (translated by Steven T. Murray)
Joachim Boaz: The Bleeding Man and Other Stories by Craig Strete; The Werewolf Principle by Clifford D. Simak; The Lights in the Sky are Stars by Fredric Brown; The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell; Waves by M. A. Foster; In Solitary by Garry Kilworth; Electric Forest by Tanith Lee; Burt Shonberg
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli: March 1965; April 1965; May 1965
Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds and Nowhere to Run by Ron Faust; Trouble Man and (as by "Daniel Ransom") Night Caller by Ed Gorman
Sara Boyle: The Dark Shore by Susan Howatch
Brian Busby: Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorehouse; Agnes Maule Machar; 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); Queen Kong by James Moffatt; The Last Canadian by William C. Heine
Bob Byrne: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout, The American Magazine, November 1955, edited by Sumner Blossom
Liz Dexter: Fresh from the Country by "Miss Read" (Dora Jessie Saint); Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson; Dream of Fair Horses and The Horse of Black Loch by Patricia Leitch
Gabe Dybing: the novels of Tim Powers
Martin Edwards: Murder in Blue by Clifford Wittig; Dead Horse by Walter Satterthwait;
Crossed Skis by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith C. Rivett); the value of book reviewing; The Private Wound by "Nicholas Blake" (C. Day-Lewis); The Widower by [Hilda] Van Siller; Stairway to an Empty Room by Dolores Hitchens; The Empty House by Michael Gilbert; The Crime Against Marcella by George Milner; Top Ten Escapist Crime Reads; The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (translated by Louise Heal Kawai); 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, May 1953 parts 1 and 2; April 1953; March 1953 part 2; March 1953 part 1
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics: November 1976; October 1976; September 1976; August 1976; July 1976; June 1976; Warren horror comics, July-September 1971; May-July 1971; March-May 1971; 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
Will Errickson: Maynard's House by Herman Raucher; The Sweet Taste of Burning by Paul Andreota; Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell; Mary Higgins Clark
José Ignacio Escribano: Rubem Fonseca; Winifred Peck; Dashiell Hammett; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Ernest Bramah; Philip MacDonald; Clayton Rawson; Eden Philpotts; Ronald A. Knox; A.E.W. Mason; C.H.B. Kitchin; Margaret and C.D.H. Cole; "A./Archibald Fielding" (Dorothy Fielding); "Leo Bruce"/Rupert Croft-Cooke; Julian Symons; "Anthony Wynne" (Robert McNair Wilson); Alan Melville; Christopher St. John Sprigg; "Anthony Boucher" (William A. P. White); The Detection Club
Jerry House: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fall 1944 (first issue), edited by Frederic Dannay (as EQ); Dark Entry by Basil Copper; The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndication to newspapers), 15 June 1941; 30 Day Wonder by Richard Wilson; Ten Years to Doomsday by Chester Anderson and Michael Kurland; Paul Fairman; Thunder Jim Wade by Henry Kuttner; the Hogben stories by Kuttner and C. L. Moore; City on the Moon by "Murray Leinster" (Will F. Jenkins); Charlotte Armstrong; The War Chief and Apache Devil by Edgar Rice Burroughs; David Goodis; Wasp by Eric Frank Russell; Fireside Mystery Book edited by Frank Owen; Brian Garfield; A Second Century of Spooky Stories edited by Hugh Walpole; Cornell Woolrich; The Mystery Book edited by H. Douglas Tomson; The Mysteries of Udolfo by Anne Radcliffe; Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo; Sport for Inspector West (aka Inspector West Kicks Off) by John Creasey; Jack Finney; The Annotated Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, edited and annotated by Maria Tatar; Frank Quattrocchi
Aubrey Hamilton: The Laughing Dog by Francis Vivian; Princes Gate by Mark Ellis; 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
Aubrey Hamilton: The Laughing Dog by Francis Vivian; Princes Gate by Mark Ellis; 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
Nick Jones: Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Mark R. Kelly: A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Needle by "Hal Clement" (Harry Stubbs); Collision Course by Robert Silverberg; City by Clifford D. Simak
Neeru: The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts; The Great Impersonation by E. Philips Oppenheim; 10 recommended books; Speak Justly of the Dead by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith C. Rivett); Mister Westerby Missing and Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole by "Miles Burton" (Cecil John Street); Blackout at Gretley by J. B. Priestly
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; Talking Man by Terry Bisson; Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley; The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley; The Worlds Trilogy by Joe Haldeman; Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Jack Seabrook: "Change of Address" by Robert Arthur, The Mysterious Traveler Magazine, January 1952, edited by Arthur; "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
James Van Pelt: fantastica short fiction collections, by Kelly Link, Ted Chiang and others
Janet Varney: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Todd - hope all is well. Thanks so much for doing such a "deep dish" style post with all these amazing links. Have missed you for the past month. Always happy to see this long list because any time I get linked here my blog traffic increases considerably. Hang in there in these shuttered-in, quarantine-like days!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you back, Todd. And thanks for doing all this for us.
ReplyDeleteTake Care.
Very glad it makes a tangible, so to speak, difference, John...and also glad to welcome you back, Neeru.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing such a great job with this, Todd!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Todd! That's a lot of work!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Patti...and glad you're back to blogging! Jack, thanks to you, too...and plenty more work to do, which would be further along if I hadn't apparently needed to sleep nearly all the day yesterday.
ReplyDeleteGood evening Todd. I hope you're OK. I miss reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlie! I miss writing on it and engaging with yours and reading it more. Life has been ridiculously miserable in mostly hugely distracting ways...today's worst aspect is that our tomcat Domino might've eaten for the last time, but he's still drinking water and has been doggedly getting down the stairs to get to his litter box, but it's clearly very close to the end of his kidneys and the boy might well get a short-term main-floor-level litter box in the bathroom tomorrow morning. He's been a trouper.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, whether the ceiling tile in one of the small rooms that collapsed from a roof leak, bringing down blown-in insulation with it of uncertain age and composition, actually contains asbestos or other unsalubrious materials, we find out tomorrow, and thus can figure out how carefully we must clean the books splattered with it.
That kind of thing.
Hope you are doing much better. I haven't even written the obituary for my father I've wanted to since June. These are only a few of the litany of depressing things that have been tumbling through life over this way...the brakes failing on my car on my way to trying to find my doctor's other office with incorrect Google Maps directions was yet another sitch in the last week...I will cease, for all our sakes, but consider the surface only somewhat scratched...
I'm sorry about all of the bad luck. I hope things get better soon. I've lost a couple of pets too. I believe I know how hard it is for you & sorry about your Dad too.
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Charlie.
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