Category Archives: Books

Target: Mike Shayne

Posted on March 22, 2014 by ubu507

Hard as it is to believe, there’s a detective out there who has been the protagonist in novels that sold over 30 million copies, starred in hundreds of short stories, radio shows, movies, a television series, had his own digest … Continue reading →

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, Edited by Sarah Weinman, Penguin, $16.00

Posted on January 23, 2014 by ubu507

To my mind the most unjustly neglected mystery writers of all are the women who wrote non-series books around the middle of the twentieth century. Part of the neglect has to do with the fact that series fiction has come … Continue reading →

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Date Slip

Posted on December 7, 2013 by ubu507
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Uncertainty by Michael Larsen

Posted on October 22, 2013 by ubu507

I wrote a little while ago about the delightfully random way books come into my hands. To paraphrase Poe, I cannot, for my soul remember how, when, or even precisely where I first became acquainted with Michael Larsen’s Uncertainty, but … Continue reading →

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The Upanishads

Posted on October 14, 2013 by ubu507

I like how big an effect chance has on what I read. Chance is, after, all one of the cardinal precepts of my beloved Surrealism, and really, along with its cousin uncertainty, is one of the hallmarks of our age. … Continue reading →

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From The Great Lakes Center For The Literary Arts Library

Posted on October 13, 2013 by ubu507

Who is the promiscuous female? What sort of life does she lead? Who are her friends? Is she capable of a genuine emotional involvement? Here is a book which examines her problems — nymphomania, frigidity, repressed lesbianism, social rebellion, sexual … Continue reading →

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Torn from the pages of today’s calendar!

Posted on September 24, 2013 by ubu507

Bantam Edition Published June, 1954

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From The Great Lakes Literary Arts Center

Posted on August 18, 2013 by ubu507

1971  

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Books

Posted on August 9, 2013 by ubu507

Well, he’s a tool anyway…. Ginny Gordon and the Missing Heirloom by Julie Campbell Illustrated by Margaret Jervis [1950]

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The Confessions of Al Capone, Loren D. Estleman, Forge, $27.99

Posted on May 27, 2013 by ubu507

Loren Estleman has written a lot of books, but many of them have been in one or another of his excellent series, so when he writes one that isn’t, it’s news. Actually The Confessions of Al Capone more resembles one … Continue reading →

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