FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: links to the reviews: 23 June 2023

Includes 21 June 2023 Short Story Wednesday listings

Patricia Abbott: Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis

Tony Baer: Scarface by "Armitrage Trail" (Maurice Coons)

Brad Bigelow: Seven Days Whipping by John Biggs, Jr.

Elgin Bleecker: Six Graves to Munich by Mario Puzo

"Joachim Boaz": "The Highway" by Ray Bradbury (as by "Leonard Spaulding"), Copy, Spring 1950; "The Day the Bomb Fell" by Leslie A. Croutch, Amazing Stories, November 1950, edited by Howard Browne; stories by Russell Bates: "Legion", Infinity Two, edited by Robert Hoskins; "Get with the Program", Amazing Science Fiction Stories, March 1972, edited by Ted White; "A Modest Proposal", Clarion II, edited by Robin Scott Wilson

Matthew Bradley: Murder by the Book by Rex Stout

Brian Busby: Véhicule Press: Ten for the Fiftieth Anniversary

Martin Edwards: The Brazen Confession by Cecil Freeman Gregg

Will Errickson: Finishing Touches and Rapture by Thomas Tessier

Jose Ignacio Escribano: John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles by Douglas Greene

Erica Frank: Playboy, February through June 1968, edited by Hugh Hefner; A. C. Spectorsky, Executive Editor; Robie McCauley, fiction editor

Aubrey Hamilton: Cancelled in Red by "Hugh Pentecost"

Rich Horton: My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Jerry House: "The Man in the Room" by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg, Hampton's Magazine, May 1909, William Griffith, managing editor (and widely reprinted); Captain Midnight, February 1946, edited by Will Lieberson; The Mouse on Wall Street by Leonard Wibberly

Kate Jackson: The Cornish Wedding Murder by Fiona Leitch

Tracy K: Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

George Kelley: "Missing in the Snow" by Ann Cleeves (e-chapbook); The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West; Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre

Joe Kenney: SunStop 8 by Lou Fisher

K. A. Laity: Quarry by Jane White

B. V. Lawson: Home is the Prisoner by Jean Catherine Potts

Evan Lewis and James Reasoner: Decoy (aka Decoy Doll) by Cleve F. Adams (original posts)

Todd Mason: "And the Moon Be Still as Cheddar" by Robert Silverberg (a parody of Ray Bradbury's fiction) and "Cherchez le Message" by Harlan Ellison, Grue, March 1955, edited and published by Dean Grennell; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1954, edited by "Anthony Boucher" (William White) and J. Francis McComas; and Fantastic, April 1954, edited by Howard Browne

Michael Moorcock and others: The Great Rock'N'Roll Swindle by Michael Moorcock

Neeru: Public Ghost Number One by Andrew Soutar

Steven Nester: Beat the Devil by "James Helvick" (Claud Cockburn)

John O'Neill: Time to Come edited by August Derleth

James Reasoner: The E. Hoffman Price Spicy Adventure Megapack edited by ?John Betancourt (introduction by Darrell Schweitzer); see also, Evan Lewis.

Kelly Robinson: Pulp Fiction by Robert Turner

Kevin Tipple: Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction edited by Michael A. Arnzen and Heidi Ruby Miller; Fedora III edited by Michael Bracken

"TomCat": What Happened at Hazelwood by "Michael Innes" (J. I. M. Stewart)

Becky Tuch: LitMag news

Bill Wallace: A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren

A. J. Wright: Rube Burrow in dime novels

Mark Yon: New Worlds, July 1968, edited by Michael Moorcock