This week, and next, I'm subbing for Patti Abbott, taking a break...we have a few not so obscure titles this week, as frequently, but also no few now-obscure titles by not so obscure writers, or even those writers who were once much more widely-read than they are now...even Erle Stanley Gardner, given the sustained popularity of my quasi-namesake. If I've missed your or someone else's book or other review, please let me know in comments...thanks!
Sergio Angelini: The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Yvette Banek: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Bernadette: The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth
Les Blatt: The Chinese Lake Murders by Robert van Gulik
Elgin Bleecker: Where the Boys Are by Glendon Swarthout
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, February-March 1968
Elisabeth Grace Foley: Old Friends and New Fancies by Sybil G. Brinton
Don Coffin: The Cavalier in White by Marca Muller
Bill Crider: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft edited by August Derleth; Dead Man's Tide by "William Richards" (Day Keene); The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky); The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Butcher's Wife by Owen Cameron; Yellow Dog Contract by Ross Thomas; Brothers Keepers by Donald Westlake
Martin Edwards: Be Kind to the Killer by Henry Wade
Barry Ergang: Mirror Image by Dennis Palumbo
Will Errickson: Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher
Curt Evans: The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein
Fred Fitch: Firebreak by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake)
Paul Fraser: Science Fantasy #73, June 1965 edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli
Barry Gardner: Alibi for an Actress by Gillian B. Farrell
John Grant: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Woody Haut: The Evenings by Gerard Reeves
Rich Horton: Pink Vodka Blues and Skinny Annie Blues by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Jerry House: Sinners and Supermen by William F. Nolan
Tracy K: Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin; Laura by Vera Caspary
George Kelley: Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen 1947-1950 edited by Joseph Goodrich
Joe Kenney: The Spy Who Came to Bed by John Nemec
Margot Kinberg: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Rob Kitchin: Flight from Berlin by David John
B. V. Lawson: Widows Wear Weeds by Erle Stanley Gardner
Evan Lewis: Popular Library westerns
Steve Lewis: The Baron Branches Out by John Creasey
Marcia Muller: Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
John F. Norris: The D. A.'s Daughter by Herman Petersen
Matt Paust: The Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler
Mildred Perkins: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
James Reasoner: Riders of the Night by Eugene Cunningham
Richard Robinson: The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers
Gerard Saylor: Plaster City by Johnny Shaw
Kerrie Smith: The Pallampur Predicament by Brian Stoddart
"TomCat": Murder Has a Motive by Francis Duncan