This past 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: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 1969, edited by Ernest Hutter
Brad Bigelow: The Melville Log by Jay Ledya; Queer People by Carroll and Garrett Graham; Dirty Eddie by Ludwig Bemelmens; Come on Out, Daddy by Bernard Wolfe; Night Tennis by Annabel Davis-Goff; Blue Pages by Eleanor Perry and other neglected Hollywood novels
Paul Bishop: the career of Dan J. Marlowe
Mike Blake: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
Les Blatt: The Red Box by Rex Stout
Elgin Bleecker: Shaft by Ernest Tidyman
Joachim Boaz: First Step Outward edited by Robert Hoskins
John Boston: Amazing Stories, June 1966, edited by Joseph "Ross" (Wrzos)
Ben Boulden: A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
Cora Buhlert: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight
Brian Busby: North Overland with Franklin by J. Macdonald Oxley
Jason Cavallaro: Best and Worst Reading in May (mostly horror)
Douglas Cohen: Realms of Fantasy, April 1997, edited by Shawna McCarthy
Liz Dexter: Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers edited by Kit de Waal
Martin Edwards: Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand; The Gigantic Shadow (aka The Pipe-Dream) by Julian Symons
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, March-April 1975
Barry Ergang: A Hunger in the Soul by Mike Resnick
Will Errickson: Thomas Tessier's paperback editions
José Ignacio Escribano: Death's Old Sweet Song by "Jonathan Stagge" (Hugh Wheeler and Richard Webb); The Fortescue Candle by Brian Flynn
Curtis Evans: Phoebe Atwood Taylor; Octagon House by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
"Olman Feelyus": Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Paul Fraser: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Readers' Awards 2020: Novella shortlist reviews; Novelet reviews; Short story reviews
Anna Funder: "The Green Light" by Philippe Sands (Vanity Fair, May 2009)
Cullen Gallagher: TNT: Ritual in Blood by Doug Masters; Manhunter by Arnold Hano
Dana Gould: Kliph Nesteroff and Bobby Wilson
Charles Gramlich: Gallimaufry by Bruce Boston
Aubrey Hamilton: The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner; Pigeon Blood Rubies by M. McDonnell Bodkin
Bev Hankins: The Bitter Path of Death by Pierre Audemars; The Marais Assassin by "Claude Izner" (Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre)
Don Herron: August Derleth ephemera
Rich Horton: The High Hand by Jacques Futrelle; Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman
Jerry House: "The Bald Spot" by H. G. Dwight (from his The Emperor of Elam and Other Stories, 1920); The Occult Detector by J. U. Geisy and Junius B. Smith as serialized in The Cavalier, 17-24 February and 2 March 1912, edited by Robert Davis
Kate Jackson: The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley (Cox); Murder Menagerie by Jeremy Lane
Tracy K: Bug-Eyed Monsters edited by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg; The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman
Colman Keane: The Little Men by Megan Abbott; A Writer Prepares by Lawrence Block: The Digger's Game by George V. Higgins; Cast in Dark Waters by Ed Gorman and Tom Piccirilli
George Kelley: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #5: Tin Stars edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles Waugh; Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg; Fit to Kill by "Brett Halliday" (in this case, Robert Terrall)
Joe Kenney: Countdown by Frank G. Slaughter; Stryker: Deadly Alliance by William Crawford
Margot Kinberg: heatwaves in literature
Rob Kitchin: On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
K. A. Laity: Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham and tarot
Karen Langley: After Lorca by Jack Spicer
B. V. Lawson: The Moving Toyshop by "Edmund Crispin" (Robert Bruce Montgomery); A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women edited by Elizabeth George
Xavier Lechard: the novels of Jean Potts; and of Charlotte Armstrong
Des/D. F. Lewis: The Fontana Book of Ghost Stories anthologies edited by Robert Aickman
Evan Lewis: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, edited by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay solo); July, September and November 1942; Perry Mason: The Case of the Innocent Thief (newspaper comic strip) by Erle Stanley Gardner and Mel Keefer, syndicated in 1950
Steve Lewis: White Meat by Peter Corris; The Affair in Duplex 9B by William Johnston; Dead Matter by Steven Frimmer; The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Library of America: "The Personal is Political" by Carol Hanisch (from Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation: Major Writings of the Radical Feminists edited by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, 1970); "Stranger than Fiction" by James Weldon Johnson, The New York Age, 23 December 1915; "The Gutting of Couffignal" by Dashiell Hammett, The Black Mask, December 1925, edited by Philip Cody; "Tickets" by Donald Barthelme, The New Yorker, 6 March 1989, edited by Robert Gottlieb
Dawn Major: Fugitives of the Heart by William Gay
Barry N. Malzberg: New American Review/American Review edited by Theodore Solotaroff
Todd Mason: 2020 best of the year literary annuals; stories from Orbit 3 edited by Damon Knight (Putnam 1968) and New American Review #3 edited by Theodore Solotaroff (Signet/New American Library 1968)
Edward McBride: The Long Night by Ovid Demaris; The Gunsmith 98: Nevada Death Trap by "J. R. Roberts" (Robert Randisi)
Stephen J. McDermott: Dawson's Run by Tim McCloud; The Moon in the Gutter by David Goodis
Neeru: Voice Out of Darkness by Ursula Curtiss; An Afternoon to Kill by Shelley Smith; Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Steven Nester: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes; Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by Horace McCoy
Jess Nevins: The Social War of 1900, or Conspirators and Lovers by Simon Mohler Landis
John F. Norris: Bedeviled by Libbie Block; Blood on the Common by Anne Fuller and Marcus Allen
Jim Noy: Mysteries and More Mysteries by Robert Arthur
Juri Nummelin: The Love Odds by "Peter Keyes" (Andrew J. Collins?)
John O'Neill: The Empire of Kaz trilogy by Leslie Gadallah; Stellar Fist by Geo. W. Proctor
Paperback Warrior: The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart; The Angry Mountain by Hammond Innes; Hurricane by Gardner F. Fox; Snowbound Six by Richard Martin Stern; Cyclone by Eric Nilsen
Matt Paust: Hearts at Dawn by Alysa Salzberg; Listen Carefully for Our Menu Has Recently Changed by Roger Loring
Mildred Perkins: The Truth About Belle Gunness by Lilian de la Torre
James Reasoner: The Law of the Jungle by "Louis Masterson" (Kjell Hallbing); "The Resurrection of Jimber Jaw" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Argosy, 20 February 1937, edited by Jack Byrne; Rimrock Town by William Heuman; Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol by Stuart Jennett
Richard Robinson: Hayden's World, Volume 1 by S. D. Falchetti; Seventy-Seven Clocks by Christopher Fowler; The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes edited by Mike Ashley
Steve Scott: plagiarism of John D. MacDonald texts
Jack Seabrook: "No Name, Address, Identity" by William Link and Richard Levinson, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, July 1961, edited by William Manners; "Getting Rid of George" by Robert Arthur, Bestseller Mystery Magazine, May 1959, edited by Robert P. Mills (as by Joseph Ferman)
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic Stories, June 1966, edited by Joseph Wrzos/"Ross"
Kerrie Smith: The Ginza Ghost by Keikichi Osaka (translated by Ho-Ling Wong); The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
Marina Sofia: five books, five decades (1970-2019)
Charlie Stella: The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe: Zen Cho; Nghi Vo
Kevin Tipple: "A Fine Mist of Blood" by Michael Connelly (Mystery Writers of American Presents Vengeance, edited by Lee Child, 2012); Cop Hater by "Ed McBain" (Evan Hunter)
"TomCat": The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat by Enid Blyton; Moord onder de mantel der liefde ("Murder Under the Mantle of Love") by "Ton Vervoort" (Peter Verstegen); Murder at Government House by Elspeth Huxley
Prashant Trikannad: library-building during a pandemic
Bill Wallace: The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe by Franziska zu Reventlow (translated by James J. Conway); The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvard
A. J. Wright: William P. McGivern...in Alabama?
Jonathan Yardley: Condominium by John D. MacDonald