A bargain on the first book in Gregory Mcdonald’s Flynn . The first novel (of four) in, wait for it, the Flynn series. It’s a great weeken...

Stark House Press and its imprint Black Gat Books are my favorite classic crime publishers. Black Gat publishes beautiful mass market p...

The Wolf in the Clouds is Ron Faust’s second published novel. It was originally published as a hardcover by Bobbs-Merrill’s Black Bat My...

To Die in Beverly Hills , by Gerald Petievich, was published in hardcover by Arbor House in 1983. The edition that caught my eye was Pinnacl...

The February Stark House Press newsletter is live at their website: “The lead title—the book that Crime Club members will receive...

Cannon: Murder by Gemini , by Richard Gallagher was published as a paperback original by Magnum Books in 1971, which is the very edition tha...

Ron Faust published 15 novels in a career that spanned nearly 40 years. The first, Tombs of Blue Ice , appeared in 1974 and the last, Ja...

Water Hole , by Julian Jay Savarin, is a Gordon Gallagher thriller. There were at least five in the series and Water Hole is either the firs...

“‘Because my mother married a communist who wouldn’t kiss the rebbe’s ass. The rebbe , by the way, was Jacob Levy’s father. So, one man...

The Tribe , by Bari Wood (NAL, 1981), is a slow burning and suspenseful horror novel with a genuine Jewish golem at its core. It begins wi...

I’ve never been accused of being a great writer or a prolific writer, but in 2019 I approached “working” writer status. I had four or...

Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed thundered onto the book scene in 1975. It was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, by Willia...

The Spy in the Box  was written by Ralph Dennis in the early 1980s, but this  Brash Books  edition, released nearly 40 years after it was ...

2019 was a solid reading year. I finished 51 titles, which is 13 fewer than last year’s mark. As usual, the majority of the titles were ...

The Poker Club , by Ed Gorman, originally published as a limited and signed edition hardcover by Cemetery Dance in 1999, is an expansion...

The Bavarian Connection , by Don Smith, is the twentieth installment of the popular Secret Mission series. It was a paperback original publi...