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Murder in Retrospect–Reviews of classic crime fiction Murder With Your Malted–Jerome Barry, Doubleday, 1941 Now for something entirely different, and. . .well, frothy! A Doubleday Crime Club of yore delivers the goods, including; limeades; grilled sandwiches; and a bicarb to wash it all down. What a goofy locale for murder–a drugstore in Times Square, … Read more
When I read something like the following article I found on Banned Books Week , I realize how darn lucky I was growing up in a world that hadn’t yet discovered political correctness, school book censorship by parents, and banned books because of outside interference. I just don’t understand parents who believe they need to shield their children … Read more
Deja View A new section on the blog–Reviews of old titles, many from the Golden Age Of Crime Fiction.To find a copy of this or any other of the Deja View books–your local used bookstore is a great place to start. (The Murder In Retrospect is the icon for this group of posts) Murder Gives a Lovely … Read more
The blog *shelf awareness*–http://shelf-awareness.com/— linked to an interesting review by Seth Marko on the Indie book pic for February, West of Here. Well, right here is the link to the review: http://sethmarko.blogspot.com/2011/01/west-of-here-by-jonathan-evison-review.html
YA Fiction by Ben Langdon YA stands for Young Adult and is often seen as the category of book which sits between childrens’ fiction and adult fiction. This is a bit simplistic and, as most readers would already know, there really isn’t any kind of rigid barriers for the ages when it comes to … Read more
The backcover splat basically sells Terminal Freeze as scientists in an abandoned sonar research lab in the arctic are eaten by frozen sabretooth tiger. Throw in a documentary crew who’s there to reveal the defrosted beast, live from the arctic, and you know there’s going to be people dying left and right. There’s also an … Read more
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour is out. The 6th and final book of a series that has been published one volume per year since 2004 is out. The story is finished. In the months leading up to this book release all readers have been waiting to find out what would happen. Will the plotlines be resolved … Read more
This is a crime novel. I don’t ordinarily go in for that type of book, but being that it was by one of my favorite authors, and also that I happened to have an autographed manuscript here, I thought I would give it a shot. I was thrilled beyond belief that it was still filled … Read more
