This fortnight's books and more, 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. Hope to not skip any more weeks soon, as this is a huge file even for 14+ days...the malady bugs are persistent and have been difficult to get around.
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Les Blatt: Somewhere in the House by Elizabeth Daly; The Death of Mr. Lomas by Frances Vivian; A Going Concern by "Catherine Aird" (Kinn McIntosh)
Joachim Boaz: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight; "Centaurus IV" by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding Science Fiction, June 1947, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, May 1976; Warren horror comics August-September 1970
"Olman Feelyus": City by Clifford D. Simak; The Age of Scandal by T. H. White; Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart; Tiger by the Tail by James Hadley Chase
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1944, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Weird Tales, November 1944, edited by Dorothy McIlwraith
John Grant: Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason (translated by Bernard Scudder); The Stranger by Albert Camus (translated by Matthew Ward); Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (translated by George Miller); A Florentine Death by Michele Giutarri (translated by Howard Curtis); Burning Love and Bleeding Hearts, edited by Louise Zedda Sampson and Chris Mason
Aubrey Hamilton: The Shakespeare Murders by A. G. MacDonnell; Crush by Phoef Sutton; Murder Can't Wait by Richard Lockridge;
Lesa Heseltine: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord and Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
Rich Horton: Home by Marilynne Robinson; Judith Merril: stories and book reviews; fiction by William Browning Spencer; Mrs. Pickerell Goes to the Arctic by Ellen MacGregor; Robert Silverberg stories
Jerry House: Across Time and Edge of Time by Donald Wollheim (writing as "David Grinnell"); This Magazine Is Haunted, June 1952, edited by B. J. Heyman; Weird Tales the magazine and periodical anthology through the decades; Outside the Universe by Edmond Hamilton; prehistoric romances
Kate Jackson: Israel Rank aka Kind Hearts and Coronets by Roy Horniman; Jugged Journalism by A. B. Cox; Murder En Route by Brian Flynn; The Wheel Spins aka The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White; A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie; No Known Grave by Evelyn Berckman; Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox by Malcolm J. Turnbull; A Little Less than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong; Crime in Kensington by Christopher St. John Sprigg
Tracy K: The Last Defector by Tony Cape; A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin; Charlie M by Brian Freemantle
Colman Keane: Cutter's Firm by Julie Morrigan; In for the Kill and Violence in the Blood by Mark Newman
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
Joe Kenney: The Groovy Genius by Jack Siegel; A Time of Ghosts by "Richard Kirk" (Richard Holdstock and Angus Wells)
Karen Langley: The Book of Newcastle: A City in Short Fiction edited by Angela Readman and Zoe Turner; Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem (translated by Louis Iribarne)
Des/D. F. Lewis: Allus Cold by Matt Leyshon
Evan Lewis: "Carboy of Death" by Robert Leslie Bellem, Spicy-Adventure Stories, September 1936; edited anonymously; Nero Wolfe, the comic strip; Hammett Herald-Tribune
Steve Lewis: Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky; "Bat Man" by Victor Rousseau (as by "Lew Merrill"). Spicy Mystery Stories, February 1936, edited by Kenneth W. Hutchison; Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television by Karen A. Romanko; Tears Are for Angels by Paul Connolly; Deaths Noted: Sarah Andrews; W. Glenn Duncan; Jim Lehrer; Charles Alverson; "Crime on St. Catherine Street" by Cornell Woolrich, Argosy Weekly, 25 January 1936, edited by Frederick Clayton
Juri Nummelin: "A Man Called Horse" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Dorothy M. Johnson; "Peter Keyes", erotica writer
John O'Neill: A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason; Heroic Fantasy Quarterly edited by Adrian Simmons and David Farney; Cloven Hooves by "Megan Lindholm" (Margaret Ogden); Weird Tales (the current? magazine) edited by Marvin Kaye
"Paperback Warrior": Garrison's Gorillas by Jack (Jacques Bain) Pearl
Matt Paust: The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate by Kevin P. Duffus; Give Us a Kiss by Daniel Woodrill; The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
James Reasoner: The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. Friel; "Up From Earth's Center" by "Kenneth Robeson" (Lester Dent), Doc Savage, Summer 1949, edited by Daisy Bacon
Richard Robinson: The Best of Jerry Pournelle, edited by John F. Carr; The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann; 2019 reading
Dan Stumpf: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski); "English Summer" by Raymond Chandler, from The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, edited by Frank MacShane (1976)
Kevin Tipple: Dark Yonder: Tales and Tabs edited by Liam Sweeney; Hardcore Hardboiled edited by Todd Robinson
"TomCat": Murder in the Dog Days by P. M. Carlson; "The High House" by "Hake Talbot" (Henning Nelms), Mystery Book, Spring 1948, edited by Leo Margulies; The Case of the Rusted Room by "John Donovan" (Nigel Morland)
Prashant Trikannad: Ironman by "Dick Stivers"; Hanging Woman Creek by Louis L'Amour; Apache Fighter by "Frederick H. Christian" (Frederick Nolan); "The Bodyguard" by "Lee Child" (James Grant), from First Thrills, edited by "Child"
Les Blatt: Somewhere in the House by Elizabeth Daly; The Death of Mr. Lomas by Frances Vivian; A Going Concern by "Catherine Aird" (Kinn McIntosh)
Joachim Boaz: Orbit 1 edited by Damon Knight; "Centaurus IV" by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding Science Fiction, June 1947, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC war comics, May 1976; Warren horror comics August-September 1970
"Olman Feelyus": City by Clifford D. Simak; The Age of Scandal by T. H. White; Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart; Tiger by the Tail by James Hadley Chase
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, March 1944, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Weird Tales, November 1944, edited by Dorothy McIlwraith
John Grant: Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason (translated by Bernard Scudder); The Stranger by Albert Camus (translated by Matthew Ward); Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (translated by George Miller); A Florentine Death by Michele Giutarri (translated by Howard Curtis); Burning Love and Bleeding Hearts, edited by Louise Zedda Sampson and Chris Mason
Aubrey Hamilton: The Shakespeare Murders by A. G. MacDonnell; Crush by Phoef Sutton; Murder Can't Wait by Richard Lockridge;
James Harris: "Thirteen to Centaurus" by J. G. Ballard, Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, April 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli; "At No Extra Cost" by Peter Phillips, Marvel Science Fiction, August 1951, edited by Robert O. Erisman and Daniel Keyes
Lesa Heseltine: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord and Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
Rich Horton: Home by Marilynne Robinson; Judith Merril: stories and book reviews; fiction by William Browning Spencer; Mrs. Pickerell Goes to the Arctic by Ellen MacGregor; Robert Silverberg stories
Jerry House: Across Time and Edge of Time by Donald Wollheim (writing as "David Grinnell"); This Magazine Is Haunted, June 1952, edited by B. J. Heyman; Weird Tales the magazine and periodical anthology through the decades; Outside the Universe by Edmond Hamilton; prehistoric romances
Kate Jackson: Israel Rank aka Kind Hearts and Coronets by Roy Horniman; Jugged Journalism by A. B. Cox; Murder En Route by Brian Flynn; The Wheel Spins aka The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White; A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie; No Known Grave by Evelyn Berckman; Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox by Malcolm J. Turnbull; A Little Less than Kind by Charlotte Armstrong; Crime in Kensington by Christopher St. John Sprigg
Tracy K: The Last Defector by Tony Cape; A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin; Charlie M by Brian Freemantle
Colman Keane: Cutter's Firm by Julie Morrigan; In for the Kill and Violence in the Blood by Mark Newman
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #18 (1956) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
Joe Kenney: The Groovy Genius by Jack Siegel; A Time of Ghosts by "Richard Kirk" (Richard Holdstock and Angus Wells)
Karen Langley: The Book of Newcastle: A City in Short Fiction edited by Angela Readman and Zoe Turner; Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem (translated by Louis Iribarne)
Des/D. F. Lewis: Allus Cold by Matt Leyshon
Evan Lewis: "Carboy of Death" by Robert Leslie Bellem, Spicy-Adventure Stories, September 1936; edited anonymously; Nero Wolfe, the comic strip; Hammett Herald-Tribune
Steve Lewis: Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky; "Bat Man" by Victor Rousseau (as by "Lew Merrill"). Spicy Mystery Stories, February 1936, edited by Kenneth W. Hutchison; Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television by Karen A. Romanko; Tears Are for Angels by Paul Connolly; Deaths Noted: Sarah Andrews; W. Glenn Duncan; Jim Lehrer; Charles Alverson; "Crime on St. Catherine Street" by Cornell Woolrich, Argosy Weekly, 25 January 1936, edited by Frederick Clayton
Jess Nevins: Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley
John F. Norris: The Shadow on the Glass by Charles J. Dutton
John F. Norris: The Shadow on the Glass by Charles J. Dutton
Juri Nummelin: "A Man Called Horse" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by Dorothy M. Johnson; "Peter Keyes", erotica writer
John O'Neill: A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason; Heroic Fantasy Quarterly edited by Adrian Simmons and David Farney; Cloven Hooves by "Megan Lindholm" (Margaret Ogden); Weird Tales (the current? magazine) edited by Marvin Kaye
"Paperback Warrior": Garrison's Gorillas by Jack (Jacques Bain) Pearl
Matt Paust: The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate by Kevin P. Duffus; Give Us a Kiss by Daniel Woodrill; The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
James Reasoner: The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. Friel; "Up From Earth's Center" by "Kenneth Robeson" (Lester Dent), Doc Savage, Summer 1949, edited by Daisy Bacon
Richard Robinson: The Best of Jerry Pournelle, edited by John F. Carr; The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann; 2019 reading
Dan Stumpf: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski); "English Summer" by Raymond Chandler, from The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, edited by Frank MacShane (1976)
Kevin Tipple: Dark Yonder: Tales and Tabs edited by Liam Sweeney; Hardcore Hardboiled edited by Todd Robinson
"TomCat": Murder in the Dog Days by P. M. Carlson; "The High House" by "Hake Talbot" (Henning Nelms), Mystery Book, Spring 1948, edited by Leo Margulies; The Case of the Rusted Room by "John Donovan" (Nigel Morland)
Prashant Trikannad: Ironman by "Dick Stivers"; Hanging Woman Creek by Louis L'Amour; Apache Fighter by "Frederick H. Christian" (Frederick Nolan); "The Bodyguard" by "Lee Child" (James Grant), from First Thrills, edited by "Child"