Saturday, August 9, 2025

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to reviews: 8 August 2025

First edition and first paperback

Patti Abbott: A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price

Brad Bigelow: Revelations of a Wife by "Adele Garrison" (Nana Springer/White) serialized 1915-1946

Ben Boulden: Branded by Ed Gorman

Brian Busby: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock

Martin Edwards: Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell

Will Errickson: Orphans by Ed Naha

Jose Ignacio Escribano: Not to be Taken aka A Puzzle in Poison by Anthony Berkeley (see also: Jim Noy)

Gregory Feeley, et al.: Orbit 6 edited by Damon Knight

Charles Gramlich: Sojan the Swordsman by Michael Moorcock; Under the Warrior Star by Joe R. Lansdale: "A Planet Stories Double"

Michael A. Gonzales: Touand the African-American short story revival beginning in the mid-1990s

Mike Gray: "The Oblong Room" by Edward D. Hoch, The Saint Mystery Magazine, July 1967, edited by Leslie Charteris (as revised 5 August 2025)

Bev Hankins: Death on the Dragon's Tongue by "Margot Arnold" (Petronelle Cook)

Lesa Holstine: His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

Jerry House:  Next by Michael Crichton;  R.I.P. by Virgil Partch et al.

Tracy K: Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Kaggsy: Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson

George Kelley: Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Margot Kinberg: mysteries involving reservoirs

Nancy Kornfeld and Jackie Kashian discuss Clive Cussler novels and related fictions

B. V. Lawson: The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak

Evan Lewis: "The Shadow Cracks the Riddle of the Yellow Band" by uncredited; Shadow Comics, April 1947, edited by William J. deGrouchy

Steve Lewis: The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper by John D. MacDonald

Todd Mason:  Dutch Uncles: Two Anthologies for Younger Readers: Worlds to Come edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row 1967); Fourteen For Now edited by John Simon (Harper & Row 1969)

Neeru: Exit John Horton by J. Jefferson Farjeon

J. F. Norris: The Cock's Tail Murder by Hugh Austin

Jim Noy: Not to be Taken aka A Puzzle in Poison by Anthony Berkeley  (see also: J. I. Escribano)

Juri Nummelin: 3 1960s western novels:  On the Dodge by D. B. Newton, The Bitter Night by Wayne D. Overholser; The Demanding Land by "Reese Sullivan" (Giles A. Lutz); Juri notes he read all three in their Finnish translations; Juri's new English-language nonfiction reviews and critiques volume Dark Places and Little Tramps is now out and available in most countries.

"Paperback Warrior": Green Light for Death by Frank Kane

Thomas Parker: Kesrick by Lin Carter

J. Kingston Pierce: Too Late to Die by Bill Crider

James Reasoner: The Joy Wheel by Paul W. Fairman; Double-Action Western, September 1945, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes; "Ringmaster of Doom" by G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Secret Agent X, November 1935; Knight of Darkness: The Legend of The Shadow by Will Murray (nonfiction)

Jack Seabrook: "Blackmail" by John Lindsay, Thrills edited by John Gawsworth (Associated Newspaper, Ltd., 1936) Cover and contents; Libraries Australia catalog entry

Steven H. Silver: Tor Doubles: The Westerns; Tor (Fantasy) Double #17: Divide and Rule by L. Sprague de Camp; The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett

Kevin Tipple: Kill Devil Falls by Brian Klingborg

7 comments:

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks, Todd!

Todd Mason said...

Thank you, Jack!

TracyK said...

Thanks for including a link to my review, Todd. And I will come back tomorrow to check out the other links.

Todd Mason said...

Not at all, Tracy, and thank you.

jurinummelin said...

I also have one, much to my surprise.

Neeru said...

Great to see it back! I have missed this feature. Thanks for including my review and for compiling this, Todd.

Todd Mason said...

Thanks for coming and checking it out, Neeru, and for your continuing reviews. Life has been unfriendly of late, but I've been missing doing the round-ups myself.