FRIDAY''S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS: the links to the reviews and more: October 2025

Patti Abbott: The Damned by Andrew Pyper

Yvette Banek: The Christopher St. John Sprigg Collection, Illustrated: The Perfect Alibi, Fatality in Fleet Street, Death of a Queen, Crime in Kensington, Death of an Airman (an e-book omnibus) by Christopher St. John Sprigg (Yvette suggests you ignore the public domain "illustrations" in this edition.) Kate Jackson on Sprigg's novels.

Brad Bigelow: No More Orchids by Grace Perkins

Brian Busby: Crimes; or: I'm Sorry Sir, But We Do Not Sell Handguns to Junkies by "Vicar Vicars" (Ted Mann)

Colman/Olman: The General by Alan Sillitoe; Barking Dogs by Terence M. Green

Martin Edwards: The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts

Eric/"Paperback Warrior": At Home with the Horrors by Sammy Scott

Will Errickson: Ghouls in My Grave by Jean Ray (translated by Lowell Bair)

Curtis Evans: On Philip MacDonald (Blogspot ads are a bit much...don't click on them, vs. around them, unless you want to see more ads...); Bodies from the Library 4 edited by Tony Medawar

Paul Fraser: Tor.com Short Fiction, September/October 2002, edited by Ellen Datlow, Lee Harris, Jonathan Strahan and Ann VanderMeer

Michael A. Gonzalez: Pimp by "Iceberg Slim" (Robert Beck)

Rich Horton: Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick; Fantastic, August 1956, edited by Paul Fairman (featuring four stories by the young Robert Silverberg); (the utterly unforgotten) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Kate Jackson: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

Tracy K: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (for Neeru's "Hundred Years Hence" blog project, reviewing 1925 books this year)(and another utterly un-0bscure book, to be sure)

George Kelley: House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds

BV Lawson: The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Xavier Lechard: Wilkie Collins and his legacy

Steve Lewis: The Sock-It-to-'Em Murders (a The Mod Squad novel) by Richard Deming

B. D. McClay: Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller

Neeru: The Murder of the Mahatma by G.D. Khosla

James Reasoner: The Ship of Shadows by H. Bedford-Jones; Double-Action Western, January 1953, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes

Leo Robson: A Different Kind of Tension: New and Collected Stories by Jonathan Lethem

Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Fantasy #2 (essentially, Fall) 1970, edited by Lester del Rey

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