Showing posts with label 1950s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950s crime fiction and mysteries. Show all posts
Saturday, January 19, 2019

also heading your way in February: Go Lovely Rose/The Evil Wish, by Jean Potts

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9781944520656 Stark House Press, 2019 303 pp paperback (my many, many thanks to Stark House for my copy) When I opened the envelope ...
Monday, September 3, 2018

and now, the '50s, part two ... The Gravediggers' Bread, by Frédéric Dard

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9781782272014 Pushkin Vertigo, 2018 originally published as Le pain des fossoyeurs, 1956 translated by Melanie Florence 148 pp ...

and now, the '50s, part one ... Ordeal by Innocence, by Agatha Christie

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0553350676 Bantam/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1987 originally published 1958 212 pp, hardcover A few weeks ago when the spo...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Portrait in Smoke / The Longest Second, by Bill S. Ballinger

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9781944502489 Stark House, 2018 269 pp paperback " Blessed are the forgetful: for they get better even after their blunders...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

three from the beachbag

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My most recent reads are not from the distant past, but rather more contemporary books.  From time to time I do detach myself from yesteryea...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding x 2: Widow's Mite and Who's Afraid?

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9781944520342 Stark House Press, 2018 263 pp paperback As always, I have to begin by thanking the lovely people at Stark House Press...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Death Going Down, by María Angélica Bosco

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9781782272236 Pushkin Vertigo, 2016 originally published as La muerte bajo en ascensor, 1955 translated by Lucy Greaves 151 pp paper...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson

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" All I can do is wait until I split. Right down the middle."                                                            ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

a downright delicious double dose of Dard, from Pushkin Vertigo: Crush and Bird in a Cage

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9781782271987 Pushkin Vertigo, 2016 originally published as Les scélérates, 1959 translated by Daniel Seton 156 pp paperback ...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

perfect noir greatness: Black Wings Has My Angel, by Elliott Chaze

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(read in June) 9781590179161 NYRB Classics, 2016 originally published 1953 209 pp paperback " ...real life is not a series o...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

*"I didn't know there was a book" -- Bunny Lake is Missing, by Evelyn Piper

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15586114745 The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004 originally published 1957 219 pp paperback (read in March) ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

*She Who Was No More, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

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9781782270812 Pushkin Vertigo, 2015 originally published as Celle qui n'était plus, 1952 translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury 190 pp ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

*Vertigo, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac -- a stunner.

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97817822270805 Pushkin Vertigo, 2015 originally published as D'entre les morts, 1954 translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury 189 pp pap...
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