The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 03/04/2009
James R. Benn’s endorsement on this page of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, by James Hadley Chase, is hardly the only “forgotten book” being championed today in the crime-fiction blogosphere. Elsewhere, you can read about A Winter Spy, by MacDonald Floyd; Behind the Screen, by The Detection Club; The Phantom Spy, by Max Brand; Drury Lane’s Last Case, by Barnaby Ross (aka Ellery...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 16/01/2009
In addition to Rob Kantner’s Rap Sheet write-up about Death of a Citizen, by Donald Hamilton, this “forgotten books Friday” offers a flood of posts elsewhere about overlooked older titles. Among the picks: Icebreaker, by John Gardner; The Gutter and the Grave, by Ed McBain; Last Bus to Woodstock, by Colin Dexter; Dying to Sing, by Meg Chittenden; Odds Against Tomorrow, by William...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
In addition to Charles Cumming’s tribute to Journey into Fear in The Rap Sheet, today brings a load of “forgotten books” posts elsewhere in the blogosphere. Some of the highlights: Bill Crider on Preacher, by Ted Thackery Jr.; James Reasoner on Rogue Cop, by William P. McGivern; Scott D. Parker on The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury; Martin Edwards on Thus Was Adonis Murdered, by...
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