The seventh installment in Mack Bolan’s war against the Mafia finds the Executioner returning stateside after his devastating dealings with the Mob in London. He barely escapes the trap set for him at the airport and only does so through the assistance of folks unconnected with the battles … though soon they will be heavily …
Read the full post →“<em>Nightmare in New York</em>, by Don Pendleton”
In this, the sixteenth entry in the long-running series of Mr. & Mrs. North mysteries penned by husband and wife writing team Richard and Frances Lockridge, a noted palaeontologist published by Jerry North’s firm is being harassed by means of fake ads in newspapers claiming he wishes to hire, e.g., tree surgeons, the ads resulting …
Read the full post →“<em>Dead as a Dinosaur</em>, by Frances & Richard Lockridge”
It had been many years since I had last read the comic strip Fred Basset when I ran across this paperback and picked it up. I still found the often-jovial hound amusing, though I had forgotten — if I had ever noticed — that the strip was set in England. Worth a look for fans …
I’ve been slowly making my way through the several Loeb Classical Library volumes that contain the historical work Roman Antiquities, by the first-century B.C. author Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and I recently finished up the fifth volume, covering Books 8 and 9 (through section 9.24). The volume is largely devoted to the career of, and the …
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Louis L’Amour pens a contemporary mystery-thriller, albeit still in a western setting, with The Broken Gun, as an author interested in what happened to two brothers who had brought a herd of cattle west and then disappeared finds himself the target of those who know what happened and themselves have something to hide. Though he …
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R.A.J. Walling’s sleuth Mr. Tolefree is called in by a man dealing with an eccentric family to buy a long-held antique, but not to investigate anything to do with the purchase, but rather to figure out the strange goings-on the buyer experienced while staying at the family home. Mr. Tolefree ends up a guest there …
Read the full post →“<em>The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas</em>, by R.A.J. Walling”
The long-running series of volumes edited by Lawrence Lariar and collecting cartoons that appeared in various magazines throughout the year, which began in the midst of World War II, was nearing its end with this edition. The book contains the usual mix of topical cartoons and those with more timeless appeal; a few will be …
Read the full post →“<em>Best Cartoons of the Year 1970</em>, ed. by Lawrence Lariar”
Easily my favorite mysteries by Carter Brown are those starring Lieutenant Al Wheeler, “temporarily” attached to the office of Sheriff Lavers. In Until Temptation Do Us Part, as so often happens, Wheeler is summoned in the middle of the night to the scene of a murder. The victim is a local real estate magnate at …
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Lance Kilkenny may have finally found a home, in a remote valley in the mountains, but when a land-grabbing cattleman threatens all the little spreads in the area, including that run by the woman he loves, the tired gunfighter must once again take up arms and bring the fight to the oppressor. The final Kilkenny …
