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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