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FRIGHT FEST #2: Veils of Fear - Vivian Meik
The "Creeps" series of books published by Phillip Allan during the 1930s are legendary books among supernatural fiction collectors, all are highly elusive and consequently exorbitantly priced if one is...
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FRIGHT FEST #1: The Death Fire - Lilian Bennet-Thompson & George Hubbard
This month I'll be reviewing a small batch of supernatural mysteries and thrillers in honor of the Halloween season. Usually I do one single post tagged Halloween Special (sometimes two) but I pulled a...
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FIRST BOOKS: Madam Will Not Dine Tonight - Hillary Waugh
THE STORY: Valerie King is having a dinner party. She's invited eight guests, among them Sheridan Keith Wesley, a private detective. Included in Wesley's invitation is a $100 retainer. He's being...
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MOONLIGHTERS - Lesley Frost, the Poet's Daughter
Part of discovering so-called forgotten writers and their books is that the discovery is actually more of a recovery. These books already exist and the people who wrote them may have been forgotten by...
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Listen, Please Listen - Naomi A. Hintze
Single mom Jo St. John is hiding from her past. Her real name is Darlene Heckart. Back in Missouri something happened when she was a teenager. Something bizarre and newsworthy. Books were written about...
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Murder Mansion - Herman Landon
THE STORY: Donald Chadmore, newly released from prison for an assault charge has come to his uncle Theodore's home in order to protect him from a possible attack. He takes his uncle to the library at...
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The Case of the Missing Sandals - Nancy Barr Mavity
THE STORY: James "Peter" Piper, bespectacled, lanky reporter "with an ugly face" working for the Herald somewhere in northern California, is allowed access to the murder scene at a religious cult's...
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Pretty Sinister in Translation
Just a quick note for any of the Spanish language readers out there. There is a new translation of Wild Justice by George A Birmingham. Espuela de Plata based in Seville has been translating into...
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Murder at the World's Fair - Mary Plum
THE STORY: Charles Graham makes a visit to Chicago's Century of Progress exposition and while passing through the Belgravian Pavilion he sees a man open a doorway. The man's hand is covered with blood...
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The Death Film - P. R. Shore
"Wonder of wonders! Miracle of miracles!"This seems to be the year during which half of the books on my want list have turned up for sale. And of course I pounced upon all of them. Of the final six...
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Double Detection - Belton Cobb
THE STORY: Noel Ross, ex-police sergeant with Scotland Yard, has just ad an operation to remove shrapnel from his head. He and his wife take a vacation for him to recuperate. Ross is distracted and...
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FIRST BOOKS: The Swan Island Murders - Victoria Lincoln
There is nothing more upsetting than falling for the hype on a book jacket. The Swan Island Murders (1930) with its striking Art Deco influenced illustration of a silhouetted damsel being threatened by...
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Foreign Affairs - Hugh Fleetwood
Paolo Levin, concert pianist living in Rome, is being followed by an emaciated and crippled young man. He stands outside Paolo's apartment and watches the pianist. For weeks the young man shadows...
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FIRST BOOKS: A Man Died Here - Gina Dessart
THE STORY: Liz & Bob Macklin purchase an old home in Marshall, Massachusetts and begin an extensive rehab project transforming the gloomy, dark paneled, house into a bright, livable home. Liz is...
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LEFT INSIDE: Another Bookshop Receipt
This bookshop receipt was Left Inside a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung that I purchased many moons ago from John Chandler's long-lived but sadly now defunct bookstore Bookman's Corner on Broadway and...
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The Snare of Circumstance - Edith E. Buckley
THE STORY Elmer Bliss, reporter, is hired by a mysterious gentleman called Philander Summerfield to look into a recent Peter Somhers murder case that he believes was never solved. Bliss has been...
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LEFT INSIDE: Ancient Sherlockiana & German Post Card
These bits of ephemera are rather remarkable for both being well over 100 years old. Both post card and newspaper story were Left Inside my extremely scarce copy of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes...
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Giveaway Results Are In
The results of the Cecil M. Wills book giveaway are in. After a highly scientific method that I left to one of the many Random Number Generators on the internet a winner was selected at random by a...
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LEFT INSIDE: "Thank you for arranging the Madrigal Singers..."
On rare occasions I find a letter still in its envelope inside a book. This one dated January 29, 1976 and mailed on Jan 30 of that year was Left Inside my rare copy of Call Mr. Fortune (Dutton, 1921)...
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Cecil M. Wills New Reprint on Sale & Giveaway!
A couple of years ago I bought a small pile of rare hardcover editions of Cecil M. Wills mystery novels. These included Author in Distress (his debut as a mystery writer), The Chamois Murder and Death...
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