Close-up , by Len Deighton, was published as a hardcover by Atheneum in 1972. The edition that caught my eye was Signet’s 1973 mass market e...

Stark House Press released a reprint of a 1952 Fawcett Red Seal original titled One for Hell written by Jada M. Davis back in 2010. Davis...

Teklords , by William Shatner, was published as a hardcover by Ace in 1991. The edition that caught my eye was Ace’s 1992 mass market editio...

A man can get into a lot of trouble if he’s lonely. If he’s just lonely enough and has time on his hands. That’s a combination made for ...

The Flight , by C. F. Runyan, was published as a trade paperback by Bantam in 1991. The edition that caught my eye was Bantam Falcon’s 1992 ...

I’m a new arrival to the school of Robert Silverberg. I read The Book of Skulls in 2005 and I’ve made a point to read at least some Sil...

A few weeks ago I posted an image of an old Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) newsletter— click here —and while I was cleaning out a desk dra...

The Steel Mirror , by Donald Hamilton, was published as a hardcover by Rinehart & Company in 1948, but the edition that caught my eye wa...

A poor condition mass market paperback followed me on Thursday, Sleaze , by L. A. Morse. I’ve heard people speak well, and poorly, abou...

Rod has been a pitchman for a carnival sideshow—“a lousy mud-show that never played anywhere north of Tennessee”—for three seasons and h...

Ed Gorman’s Sam McCain—small town lawyer and investigator—is at the top of my list for private eye serial characters. He is charming, sa...

Bloodfire , by John Lutz, was published as a hardcover by Henry Holt in 1991, but the edition that caught my eye was Avon’s 1992 paperback e...

A favorite anthology of mine, featuring vintage hardboiled crime stories, is American Pulp ; edited by Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini and Mart...

There aren’t many things better than what I find in used books. Photographs, receipts, business cards, and every so often hard cash. The thi...

Richard S. Wheeler died on February 24, 2019, at the age of 83. He was a brilliant writer and a genuinely nice man. I was lucky enough t...

The Peninsula is “a comma of land hooking into the sea southeast of Melbourne” in Victoria, Australia. A tourist destination known for b...

I have a review article up and running at Mystery Scene’s website. As the title suggests it’s a look at older novels that were reprinted...

Attention Writers and Attendees of the 50th Anniversary Bouchercon, 2019 : YES, there will be an anthology this year! And yes, you ca...