Category Archives: Anthology

Golden Age Detective Stories edited by Otto Penzler

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Rick Robinson

Golden Age Detective Stories edited by Otto Penzler, Penzler Publishers, 2021 trade paper, part of the American Mystery Classics series The blurb from the publisher: The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era. Sometimes, the police … Continue reading →

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reading short stories – Nov 24, 2021

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Rick Robinson

It’s Thanksgiving week! I finished the Maigret stories by Georges Simenon, started a collection by Patricia Highsmith, and I’ll get back to the Andrea Camilleri later.  “The Man On the Streets” by Georges Simenon, from Death Threats and Other Stories – Maigret … Continue reading →

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reading short stories – Nov 17, 2021

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Rick Robinson

I’ve finished Guilty Creatures, continued the Simenon collection and started on a new collection by Andrea Camilleri. You may notice in the cover gallery that the cover images move to the left as I continue and then finish a book.  “The Man … Continue reading →

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reading short stories – Nov 10, 2021

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Rick Robinson

This week I’ve been reading from two anthologies and a collection:  “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” by Arthur Conan Doyle from Guilty Creatures – Sherlock Holmes is asked to discover the killer, by scourge or whip, of a local … Continue reading →

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The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Rick Robinson

The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes edited by Mike Ashley, Little, Brown Book Group, October 30, 2000. Kindle Edition 512 pages, an anthology of twenty-nine short stories. It seems everyone loves a locked-room story, and why not? If … Continue reading →

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short story Wednesday – Thrilling Stories of the Railway by Victor L. Whitechurch

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Rick Robinson

I read this in ebook form, a Kindle compilation of British Mysteries. Except for the review cited at the end of this post, the author is new to me. Thrilling Stories of the Railway by Victor L. Whitechurch, 1912.  Contents:“Peter Craine’s … Continue reading →

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Currently…

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Rick Robinson

We’ve had a lot of rain in the past week, with more expected every day for at least another. That’s good, we need it, and the snowpack that’s being dropped in the mountains, which provides the water in the Summer … Continue reading →

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Birthday Goodness

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Rick Robinson

It was too much, frankly. I had been putting things on my Amazon wishlist for a while, and I thought I’d get a couple of them and instead I got almost all of them. When Barbara brought out the packages, … Continue reading →

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Short Story Wednesday – “Bug Eater” by Nathan M. Beauchamp

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Rick Robinson

Story from: Oceans, The Anthology edited Jessica West, Holt Smith 2017 trade paperback, SFF anthology This is a new idea, proposed by Patti Abbott (here) that people can do a post each Wednesday about a single short story, a collection or … Continue reading →

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Short Story Wednesday – “Diplomat-At-Arms” by Keith Laumer

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Rick Robinson

“Diplomat-At-Arms” by Keith Laumer, from Fantastic, January 1960. Source: Keith Laumer’s Retief (Giants of Sci-Fi Collection Book 4), 2020 Kindle ebook This ebook collection of Retief stories collects the earliest 16 of Laumer’s stories featuring what will become his most enduring character. … Continue reading →

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