Category Archives: Friday Forgotten Books

FFB: West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar

Posted on July 12, 2018 by

another in my series of forgotten or seldom read books West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar by Raoul Whitfield – Altus Press, May 11, 2013 (edited by the Black Mask Library series general editor Keith Alan Deutsch) I … Continue reading →

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FFB: Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming edited by Gardner Dozois

Posted on July 5, 2018 by

Another in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming edited by Gardner Dozois, 2001 St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback I’ve long admired the editing of Gardner Dozois, and I have many of his anthologies, … Continue reading →

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FFB: Tether’s End by Margery Allingham

Posted on June 28, 2018 by

Tether’s End by Margery Allingham, Carroll & Graf 1997 paperback, first published in 1958, featuring Albert Campion, amateur Sleuth “The arrival of the bus was timed to perfection. Nobody of the slightest importance saw it at all.” Unlike the larger-than-life master criminal of Mystery … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Orbital Decay by Allen Steele

Posted on June 15, 2017 by

this is the 260th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Orbital Decay by Allen Steele, Ace Science Fiction 1989 mass market paperback – science fiction – Near Space series, book 1. I’ve liked the books by Allen Steele that … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Killer in the Rain by Raymond Chandler

Posted on May 25, 2017 by

this is the 259th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Killer in the Rain by Raymond Chandler, stories originally published 1934-1941, this collection © 1964. Shown is my Ballantine Books 1977 mass market paperback This short story collection contains 8 stories: … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Gil North

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

this is the 258th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Gil North, Poisoned Pen Press 2016 – British Library Crime Classics – trade paper. Original publication, Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1960.  This is the … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Flash Casey…Detective by George Harmon Coxe

Posted on May 11, 2017 by

this is the 256th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Flash Casey…Detective by George Harmon Coxe, Avon Book Company, 1946. Murder Mystery Monthly # 36. Mystery short story collection [This copy was loaned to me by Dave Lewis] Flash … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

this is the 255th in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2001, hardcover – mystery, cozy I don’t read a ton of cozies, but once in a while I’m tempted … Continue reading →

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Forgotten book: Jeopardy is My Job by Stephen Marlowe

Posted on April 20, 2017 by

Jeopardy is My Job by Stephen Marlowe, © May 1962, Gold Medal 1962 paperback, mystery featuring Chester Drum In this Chester Drum adventure, Drum is hired by “the Governor” to find his adult son, who has gone missing in Spain. As the search gets … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Book: Wilderness Days by Sigurd Olson

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

this is the 253rd in my series of forgotten or seldom read books Wilderness Days by Sigurd Olson, Alfred A. Knopf (a Borzoi Book) ©1972, this 7th printing 1984, hardcover non-fiction – essays on nature I find reading about nature soothing. Part of it … Continue reading →

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