THE SUMMING UP, Friday, February 12, 19, 2010

Two week worth of books here and as usual I am truly humbled by the number of authors, let alone books, I have not read.
Rob Kitchin has set out on a mission to read the books commenters on his blog voted as essential reading-this is the first review.
Thanks to Fred for his thoughtful essay on Hammett and his times.

I am going to take a week off in March-the 19th.
All of the books--two years worth-- are still listed here.
Don't forget Scott Parker's Forgotten Music project begins next week.

THE SUMMING UP, February 12, 2010

James Benn, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase
Paul Bishop, Casting in Dead Water, David Leitz
Bill Crider, A Bullet for Cinderella, John D. MacDonald
Ray Foster, Rawhide, Franc C. Robertson
Ed Gorman, Resurrection Row, Anne Perry
Randy Johnson, Murder in the Guroom, H. Beam Piper
George Kelley, The Three Roads, Ross MacDonald
Steve Langton, Final Cut: Dreams & Disasters in the Making of Heaven's Gate, Steven Bach
Chris La Tray, The Call of the Wild, Jack London
Evan Lewis, Fast One, Paul Cain
Steve Lewis: Curt J. Evans, Trial by Jury, Craig Rice
Calum MacLeod, The Most Dangerous Game, Gavin Lyall
Todd Mason, Paper and Ink Fiction Magazines
Scott Parker, The League of Frightened Men, Rex Stout
Eric Peterson, The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Alexander Theroux
James Reasoner, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Rick Robinson, Star Surgeon, James White
Kerrie Smith, The Long Way to Die, James N. Frey

Friday, February 19, 2010

Eric Beetner, The Real Cool Killers, Chester Himes
Paul Bishop, Pay the Devil, Jack Higgins
David Cranmer, Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing, Lee Server
Bill Crider, To Kiss or Kill, Day Keene
Mike Dennis, The Gambler, William Krasner
Brian Drake, The Black Mask Boys, ed. William Nolan
Martin Edwards, Double Blackmail, GDH and M Cole
Ray Foster, Andersonville, MacKinley Kantor
Ed Gorman, The Beats by Seymour Krim
George Kelley, The Grifters, Jim Thompson
Rob Kitchin, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Randy Johnson, Primary Target, Max Allan Collins
Chris La Tray, The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
Evan Lewis, Not Too Narrow-Not Too Deep, Richard Sale
Steve Lewis Thomas Baird, Forfeit, Dick Francis
Todd Mason, The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges. The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
Karen Olsen, Alley Kat Blues, Karen Kijewski
James Reasoner, The Buntline Special, Lou Cameron
Rick Robinson, The Case of the Vanishing Beauty, Richard Prather
Kerrie Smith, Rumpole for the Defence, John Mortimer
R.T. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Lellenberg, Stashower, and Foley
Fred Zackel, Dashiell Hammett