Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more: 5 September 2025

Patti Abbott: A Loss for Words by Lou Ann Walker

Douglas A. Anderson: The Autobiography of A. Merritt; A. Merritt: Reflections in the Moon Pool by Sam Moskowitz; 1930s omnibus anthologies of crime and horror fiction among others, edited by Dorothy Tomlinson, or John Gawsworth, or others, published by Gollancz and Hutchinson, among others; Great Stories of Sport edited by Thomas Moult, featuring E. R. Eddison; the works of Bernard C. Blake

Sergio Angelini and Aidan Brack: King's Ransom by "Ed McBain" (Salvatore Lombino/eventually legally Evan Hunter) and the films based on it

Brad Bigelow: Pick Up by Eunice Chapin

Ben Boulden: Domino Island by Desmond Bagley

Brian Busby: Carnac's Folly by Gilbert Parker

Charles Gramlich: the novels of Mike Sirota

"DforDoom": The Wicked Gnomes and The Iron God (Modesty Blaise graphic novels) by Peter O'Donnell and Enrique Badia Romero

Martin Edwards: Be Shot for Sixpence by Michael Gilbert

Eric/Paperback Warrior: When Michael Calls by John Farris; The Damagers by Donald Hamilton

Will Errickson: Under the Fang edited by Robert McCammon

Jose Ignacio Escribano García-Bosque: The Leyton Court Mystery by Anthony Berkeley

Murray Ewing: An Echo of Children by Ramsey Campbell

Aubrey Nye Hamilton: Who Killed Aunt Maggie? by Medora Field

Lesa Holstine: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Rich Horton: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! edited by Richard Wolinsky (transcriptions of Wolinsky and Richard Lupoff's Pacifica Radio/KPFA-FM San Francisco literary discussion series)

Jerry House: The Red Skull: A Doc Savage Novella by "Kenneth Robeson" (Lester Dent)

Kate Jackson: Writing the Murder: Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst; A Puzzle for Fools by "Patrick Quentin" (in this case, apparently Richard Webb and Hugh Wheeler): Death in the Backseat by Dorothy Cameron Disney

Tracy K: The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (with a callback to a review by the much-missed "John Grant")

Kaggsy: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

George Kelley: All Roads Lead to Rome edited by Hank Davis and David Afsharirad

B. V. Lawson: Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher (William White) edited by Francis Nevins and Martin H. Greenberg (can also be read here at Typepad...for not much longer...and we might hope Archive.org might look into preserving the older posts  in that format, as B. V. migrates her back files to her new Blogspot site, necessarily with somewhat different formatting)

Steve Lewis: Blondes Don't Cry by Merlda Mace

Gideon Marcus: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1970, edited by Edward L. Ferman; "Leviathan!" by Larry Niven (a sequel to an earlier F&SF story, "Get a Horse!"), Playboy, August 1970, edited by Hugh Hefner (in comments, I briefly note the other fiction in that issue of the skin magazine--not so much the airbrushing).

Todd Mason: Fantastic anthologies and other best-of fiction magazines anthologies

New stories by Shirley Jackson and (in English) by B. Traven, and a reprint by John Collier

Mike: The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

Neeru: Follow This Fair Corpse by Laurence Dwight Smith

J. F. Norris: Greymarsh by Arthur J. Rees

Jim Noy: podcast: Martin Edwards on his 2025 books; Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett; Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

"Puzzle Doctor": Lies and Dolls by Nev Fountain; The Final Vow by M. W. Craven

James Reasoner: Blue Book, May 1938, edited by Donald Kennicott; West on 66 by James H. Cobb; Shakedown by "Ben Kerr" (William Ard)

Stephen Silver: Tor Double 21: "Home is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny/"We, in Some Stranger Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" by Samuel R. Delany

Kevin Tipple: Among the Shadows by Bruce Robert Coffin