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May 1979, and the penultimate logo (so far) |
This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. ...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...
Patricia Abbott: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Walter Albert: The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford; When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
Les Blatt: Murder by Matchlight by "E. C. R. Lorac" (Edith Caroline Rivett)
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, January 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli

Ben Boulden: The Lawbringers by Brian Garfield
Martin Edwards: Purloining Tiny by John Franklin Bardin
Barry Ergang: Unfaithful Servant by Timothy Harris (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Will Errickson: 8 Favorite Vintage Books Read in 2018

Paul Fraser: New Writings in SF: 4 edited by John Carnell
Barry Gardner: Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
John Grant: Bunny Lake is Missing by Evelyn Piper;
Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine
Aubrey Hamilton: In the Shadow of King's by Nora Kelly

Rich Horton: Snowdrift and Other Stories by Georgette Heyer; The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher; A Princess of the Aerie and short stories by John Barnes
Jerry House: The Breaking Point by Basil Copper
Kate Jackson: Who Killed Dick Whittington? by E. and M. A. Radford; The Black Gloves by Constance and Gwyneth Little
Nick Jones: Detective Comics, May 1983, written by Gerry F. Conway and illustrated by Alfred Alcala and Don Newton
Tracy K: Outrage at Blanco by Bill Crider
Colman Keane: Bad Seed and Marlborough Man by Alan Carter
George Kelley: The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
Joe Kenney: The Golden Groove by "Dale Greggson"
Margot Kinberg: The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey

B.V. Lawson: A Private Inquiry by Jessica Mann
Evan Lewis: Hank and Muddy by Stephen Mertz; Mertz interview
Steve Lewis: "Murder Picture" by George Harmon Coxe, Black Mask, January 1935, edited by Joseph T. Shaw; Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Edition edited by Lester Del Rey: "The Meeting" by Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth

Todd Mason: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Presents Readers' Choice edited by Janet Hutchens
John F. Norris: The Doctor's First Murder by Robert Hare [Hutchinson]
Matt Paust: Lay On, Mac Duff! by Charlotte Armstrong
James Reasoner: The Corpse in the Corner Saloon by "Hampton Stone" (Aaron Marc Stein)
Richard Robinson: Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
Gerard Saylor: Perish the Day by John Farrow
Jack Seabrook: "The End of Indian Summer" by Maurice Baudin, Jr., Esquire, April 1945, edited by Arnold Gingrich
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with the last of the previous two decades' logo |
Steven Silver: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1979, edited by Edward Ferman
Victoria Silverwolf:
Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, March 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
"TomCat": The Pleasant Assassin and Other Cases of Dr. Basil Willing by Helen McCloy
Prashant Trikannad: Wild by Cheryl Strayed