Welcome to this week's list of links to reviews of overlooked (infrequently deservedly) books and stories, by the reviewers detailed below. I'm filling in this week for Patti Abbott, who'll be back at it next week. Please let me know if I've missed your review...and thanks to all the contributors, and to Bill Crider for a pointer to a review, and to all you readers...please always feel free to comment here or at the blogs cited below!
Sergio Angelini: Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly
Mark Baker: Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
Joe Barone: Fighting Chance by Jane Haddam
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Elgin Bleecker: The Crooked Frame by William P. McGivern
Brian Busby: Night of the Horns and Cry Wolfram by Douglas Sanderson (Sergio Angelini previously)
Bill Crider: Pay the Devil by Jack Higgins
William Deeck: The Puzzle of the Silver Persian by Stuart Palmer
Martin Edwards: The House by the River by A. P. Herbert
Curt Evans: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre by Lucy Sussex
Charles Gramlich: Heroika: Dragon Eaters edited by Janet O. Morris
John Grant: Stranger at Home by Leigh Brackett (ghost-written for George Sanders)
Dashiell Hanmett (hosted by Evan Lewis): Four Books Reviewed, notably The Noose by Philip MacDonald
John Hegenberger: Columbo: The Hoffa Connection by William Harrington
Rich Horton: Ellen Adair by Frederick Niven
Jerry House: If This Goes On edited by Charles Neutzel
Randy Johnson: 2 Guns for Hire by Neil MacNeil (Todhunter Ballard)
Nick Jones: A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith (and John F. Norris last week)
George Kelley: I Spy: Message from Moscow by Brian Keith
Margot Kinberg: The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey
Robert Kitchin: The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
B. V. Lawson: Dover One by Joyce Porter
Steve Lewis Midnight Sailing by Lawrence G. Blochman; Rosarito Beach by M. A. Lawson
John F. Norris: Scarecrow by Eaton K. Goldthwaite
John O'Neill: The Secret Books of Paradys (tetralogy) by Tanith Lee
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James Reasoner: Gone North by Charles Alden Seltzer
Karyn Reeves: The Premier by Georges Simenon (translated by Daphne Woodward)
Richard Robinson: Diamond Head by Charles Knief
Kevin Tipple: Fragment by Warren Fahy
"TomCat": The Case of the Sharaku Murders by Katsuhiko Takahashi (translated by Ian MacDonald)
TracyK: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Prashant Trikannad: "Harvest of War" by Charles Gramlich
Yvette Banek: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Sergio Angelini: Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly
Mark Baker: Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
Joe Barone: Fighting Chance by Jane Haddam
Elgin Bleecker: The Crooked Frame by William P. McGivernBrian Busby: Night of the Horns and Cry Wolfram by Douglas Sanderson (Sergio Angelini previously)
Bill Crider: Pay the Devil by Jack Higgins
William Deeck: The Puzzle of the Silver Persian by Stuart Palmer
Martin Edwards: The House by the River by A. P. Herbert
Curt Evans: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre by Lucy Sussex
Charles Gramlich: Heroika: Dragon Eaters edited by Janet O. Morris
John Grant: Stranger at Home by Leigh Brackett (ghost-written for George Sanders)
Dashiell Hanmett (hosted by Evan Lewis): Four Books Reviewed, notably The Noose by Philip MacDonald
John Hegenberger: Columbo: The Hoffa Connection by William Harrington
Rich Horton: Ellen Adair by Frederick Niven
Jerry House: If This Goes On edited by Charles Neutzel
Randy Johnson: 2 Guns for Hire by Neil MacNeil (Todhunter Ballard)
Nick Jones: A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith (and John F. Norris last week)
George Kelley: I Spy: Message from Moscow by Brian Keith
Margot Kinberg: The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey
Robert Kitchin: The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
B. V. Lawson: Dover One by Joyce Porter
Steve Lewis Midnight Sailing by Lawrence G. Blochman; Rosarito Beach by M. A. Lawson
John F. Norris: Scarecrow by Eaton K. Goldthwaite
John O'Neill: The Secret Books of Paradys (tetralogy) by Tanith Lee
James Reasoner: Gone North by Charles Alden SeltzerKaryn Reeves: The Premier by Georges Simenon (translated by Daphne Woodward)
Richard Robinson: Diamond Head by Charles Knief
Kevin Tipple: Fragment by Warren Fahy
"TomCat": The Case of the Sharaku Murders by Katsuhiko Takahashi (translated by Ian MacDonald)
TracyK: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Prashant Trikannad: "Harvest of War" by Charles Gramlich
Yvette Banek: Lost Horizon by James Hilton