Friday’s Forgotten Book: Blueprint for Murder by Roger Bax
Paul Winterton (1908–2001) was an English journalist and crime novelist better known under the pseudonym Andrew Garve. He also published under the name Paul Somers and his first books were attributed to Roger Bax. In 1952 he joined the Detection Club. He was...
The Handle by Richard Stark
I found The Handle (Pocket Books, 1966) by Richard Stark, i.e., Donald Westlake, on my Kindle a couple of weeks ago. I did not remember reading it, or perhaps my reading was too long ago to recall, but I promptly moved it up on my metaphoric stack. The Handle is the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Bland Beginning by Julian Symons
Cruising through eBay last fall, always a dangerous pastime, I found a group of books in the short-lived Unicorn Mystery Book Club. The subscription service published four crime fiction novels in a single volume, beginning in 1945 and ending in late 1952. The 83...