Monday 6 April 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART TWENTY-SIX

Week 26....another 50
Pre-logging look!
Harry Crews, Michael Harvey, Andrew Holmes, Jasper Fforde and UK Crime magazine


Crime Time from 1999

Camilleri, Bill James, Edward Wilson, Robert Kee and Mark Timlin

I think he writes espionage these days

Domenic Martell, Neville Thompson, James Sallis, Loren D. Estelman, Richard Blandford

Anyone seen Elvis?

Lew Griffin PI book.

R. D . Wingfield, Ian Fleming, Stephen Greenleaf, David Morrell, Andrew Donkin,

Quintin Jardine, Ira Levin, Brian M. Wiprud, Kenneth Abel, J. A. Kerley

A scorcher....apparently

William Boyd, Lawrence Block, Ira Levin, Nelson Demille, John Le Carre,

Bernie the burglar book

Smiley, I think

Paul Burke, John Le Carre, Sjowall/Wahloo, Derek Raymond, Neville Thompson

Early 60's UK Crime

Martin Beck book

Gerald Seymour, John Sandford, Ian Fleming, Jeffery Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman

Not yet read a Bond book,

John Fusco, Cormac McCarthy, Martin Cruz Smith,

Loved his second book last year!

Val McDermid, Lee Child, David Morrell, John Le Carre

Early-ish Smiley book

Another Crime Time Magazine, posthumous, possibly unfinished Larry Brown novel

Maybe I ought to read to see what I'm doing wrong!

Mel Gibson circa 1999

A post-logged look!
Lowlights.....nothing uber-scary here, just need to find more time to read

Highlights........looking forward to the Elvis look-alike book, a bit of LeCarre - either Smiley or non, plus a bit of Lawrence Block and some Larry Brown.

Another tub, another 50 next week!

THE FULL LIST IS.........
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON GENDER
ABEL KENNETH BAIT 1994 F M
BLANDFORD RICHARD HOUND DOG 2006 F M
BLOCK LAWRENCE THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY 1997 BR8 F M
BOYD WILLIAM A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA 1981 F M
BROWN LARRY A MIRACLE OF CATFISH 2007 F M
BURKE PAUL FATHER FRANK 2001 F M
CAMILLERI ANDREA EXCURSION TO TIMBUKTU 2005 IM5 F M
CHILD LEE THE VISITOR 2000 JR4 F M
CREWS HARRY THE GOSPEL SINGER 1968 F M
CRUZ SMITH MARTIN RED SQUARE 1992 AR3 F M
DEAVER JEFFERY THE TWELFTH CARD 2005 LR6 F M
DEMILLE NELSON SPENCERVILLE 1994 F M
DONKIN ANDREW LOCK STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS 1999 F M
ESTLEMAN LOREN D. LADY YESTERDAY 1987 AW7 F M
FFORDE JASPER THE EYRE AFFAIR 2001 TN1 F M
FLEMING IAN DOCTOR NO 1958 JB6 F M
FLEMING IAN DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER 1956 JB4 F M
FORSHAW BARRY CRIME TIME 2.6 (ed.) AUGUST1999 1999 N M
FORSHAW BARRY CRIME TIME 2.5 (ed.) DECEMBER1999 1999 N M
FUSCO JOHN PARADISE SALVAGE 2001 F M
GREENLEAF STEPHEN STATES EVIDENCE 1982 JMT3 F M
HARVEY MICHAEL THE FIFTH FLOOR 2008 MK2 F M
HOLMES ANDREW 64 CLARKE 2005 F M
JAMES BILL SPLIT 2001 SA1 F M
JARDINE QUINTIN SKINNER'S FESTIVAL 1994 BS2 F M
KEE ROBERT T. A CROWD IS NOT COMPANY 1947 N M
KELLERMAN JONATHAN TIME BOMB 1990 AD5 F M
KERLEY J. A. BLOOD BROTHER 2008 CR4 F M
KIYOSAKI ROBERT T. RICH DAD, POOR DAD 2000 N M
LE CARRE JOHN THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY 1977 S7 F M
LE CARRE JOHN THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD 1963 S4 F M
LE CARRE JOHN ABSOLUTE FRIENDS 2003 F M
LEVIN IRA SLIVER 1991 F M
LEVIN IRA THIS PERFECT DAY 1970 F M
MARTELL DOMINIC LYING CRYING DYING 1998 PR1 F M
McCARTHY CORMAC THE CROSSING 1994 BT2 F M
McDERMID VAL THE MERMAID'S SINGING 1995 TH/CJ1 F F
MORRELL DAVID TESTAMENT 1975 F M
MORRELL DAVID THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE 1984 M1 F M
RAYMOND DEREK THE CRUST ON ITS UPPERS 1962 F M
SALLIS JAMES GHOST OF A FLEA 2001 LG6 F M
SANDFORD JOHN SUDDEN PREY 1996 LD8 F M
SEYMOUR GERALD ARCHANGEL 1982 F M
SJOWALL/WAHLOO PER/MAJ THE MAN WHO WENT UP IN SMOKE 1966 MB2 F M/F
THOMPSON NEVILLE JACKIE LOVES JOHNSER OK? 1997 F M
THOMPSON NEVILLE TWO BIRDS/ONE STONED 1998 F M
TIMLIN MARK ALL THE EMPTY PLACES 2000 NS16 F M
WILSON EDWARD A RIVER IN MAY 2002 F M
WINGFIELD R. D.  A KILLING FROST 2008 JF6 F M
WIPRUD BRIAN M. STUFFED 2005 GS2 F M

10 comments:

  1. Col - You have some great reads there! Cruz Smith, le Carré, McDermid, Sjöwall Wahlöö... All of them are talented. Oh, and R.D. WIngfield too! I hope you'll enjoy them. You have such an extensive library!

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    1. Thanks Margot, more books than time that's for sure!

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  2. Col, I wouldn't mind reading a few Ian Fleming paperbacks. It's been a long time since I did. Are the C.T. magazines British or American?

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    1. I have yet to enjoy one, Prashant - maybe this year or next! Crime Time is a British Magazine. I think it might still be running but strictly on-line and not in print format.

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  3. Rich Dad Poor Dad! The children and I gave it to our local Poor Dad, who has a permanent low-level whine that his family is out to bankrupt him and that he will be in the workhouse soon if we don't all stop spending money like water. Just the name of the book makes us all laugh inordinately. I don't know that anyone ever read it though.
    Some nice ones there, familiar titles and different ones by familiar authors. I'm always thinking I should read another Ira Levein - his A Kiss Before Dying is a memorably brilliant book.

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    1. I shall have to read it and report back obviously. I don't know where I got it from. Levin needs to be re-visited soon-ish.

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  4. Ira Levin - brilliant writer, and I've not read either of those two (I have seen the awful Sliver movie tho', which I assume is based on the book?). I re-read The Spy Who Came in From The Cold last year - he drags you in and doesn't let go til the bitter end. Fantastic.

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    1. I really don't recall SLIVER being that bad, but who knows, my film memory is as bad as my book memory. I ought to get into LE CARRE, but I could say that about 50 - 100 other authors whose books I have loads of.

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  5. I have read lots of Bond books (by Fleming) but so long ago I remember very little. Also read Casino Royale after it came out as a movie, and was surprised to see how much the book was like the film. I plan to read all of them again... someday.

    I also have several Crime Time magazines from around 2000 and 2001ish. I love reading them.

    That cover for THE BURGLAR IN THE LIBRARY looks really strange. Going to reread those too.

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    1. You are ahead of me on Bond-Fleming - none read so far! I ought to read a Crime Time cover to cover soon, though it will undoubtedly give me a fresh list of books and authors that I missed first time around.

      You are spot on re the strangeness of the Block-Burglar cover. I really like it. It seems harsh in contrast to the other editions I have from the series which seem much gentler.

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