LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-EIGHT

Tub 78 and some more from the Vietnam War,

Tub 78!

Nam - part work magazine again - I ought to read them as there only 60 odd pages long!

Bloods by Wallace Terry!

Variation on a theme - Eyewitness Nam!

Dick Francis x 3, Ross MacDonald, John Harvey,

Lew Archer series book!

Sam Reaves, Ernest Hill, Gary Phillips, Patricia Highsmith, Carl Hiaasen, Derek B. Miller,

Ivan Monk PI! 1996

When three young black men--a petty thief, a crack dealer, and a college student--are gunned down within blocks of one another, Ivan Monk sets out to find a link between these seemingly random killings and uncovers a deadly racial conspiracy.

Black men getting gunned down....I wonder if that still happens today?

Cooper MacLeish - Chicago cabbie!

This first novel in the Cooper MacLeish series introduces the gutsy Vietnam vet and philosopher who surveys the mean streets of Chicago from his cab.

Vivian Horstmann, the lost love from Cooper's postwar past, is dead. Cooper reads that her long, cold fall was a suicide, but he has his doubts. When unknown hit men try to end her son's life along with Cooper's own, he snaps into urban survival mode to try to save them both and get to the truth.

Deon Meyer, Charles Willeford, Mark Billingham, Mo Hayder, Graham Hurley,

Non-fiction collection - essays, obits, extracts etc!

South African crime!

I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.

Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered to reopen the Sloet case.

Hanneke Sloet was a sensual and ambitious lawyer. At the time of her murder she was working on one of the biggest Black Empowerment deals in South African history. She was found dead in her luxury Cape Town apartment, a single stab wound to her chest.

After forty days, the trail has gone cold. The first investigation could find no motive and no leads, only a set of nude photographs, an ex-boyfriend with a rock-solid alibi, conniving attorneys and financial double-dealing.

Benny has to deal with immense pressure from his superiors, the media and the unfathomable sniper, whose emails keep coming and who won't stop shooting. And then there's Benny's love interest, former pop sensation Alexa Barnard, who is also trying to rebuild her life after the ravages of alcohol, and Benny has to make sure she stays sober for her comeback.

At the same time, Benny's feisty colleague, Captain Mbali Kaleni, is hunting the shooter, trying desperately to find what connects him to Hanneke Sloet.

Both Benny and Mbali are about to endure seven days of hell.

Compilation novel by various, Carl Hiaasen, John Sandford, Charles Cumming, Leonard Chang,

Leonard Chang - writer on Justified TV show

Edgy and as engrossing as Leonard Chang's acclaimed debut crime novel Over the Shoulder, Underkill finds Korean American investigator Allen Choice on a case that becomes as much a personal journey as an exploration of murder and its harrowing consequences.

Two years have passed since Allen examined his late partner's death in San Francisco, which eventually exposed secrets about the death of Allen's immigrant father twenty years earlier, with the help of journalist and girlfriend Linda Maldonado. Now Allen follows Linda down to Los Angeles—and into the unfamiliar world of illegal raves and small-time drug dealers—to uncover the details of her brother's unexpected and suspicious death, hoping to repair their deteriorating relationship and aiding her as she once helped him.

Underkill is a dark and riveting look at the mysteries of families and relationships, and delves deeply into Allen's complicated interior life. With Allen Choice in this new series, Chang is skillfully creating an unforgettable and unique character in the world of noir.

Florida crime author love-in novel - one chapter each! 

Naked Came the Manatee is a novel like no other: a wickedly funny Florida suspense thriller, written serially by thirteen of the state's most talented writers. In November 1995, a baker's dozen of Florida's finest writers began a serial novel for The Miami Herald's Tropic magazine under the guidance of Tropic's editor Tom Shroder - one writer passing the completed chapters to the next - and with each chapter, the excitement grew.

Triple Dick Francis, double Lorenzo Carcaterra,

Time Life Vietnam series book!

Ditto!

Double ditto!

Ted Lewis, Gar Anthony Haywood,  Don DeLillo, Vicki Hendricks, Sebastian Faulks, 

Aaron Gunner mystery!

A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist

Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a pregnant woman up for a violent death. But after a savage racial murder, it may be time to come out of retirement.

The white man comes to the Acey Deuce, a bar in South Central Los Angeles, to blow the head off a young black militant. The dead radical's sister pays Gunner a visit with a .22 revolver, and convinces him to find her brother's killer. As Gunner draws closer to answers, prejudice and rage threaten to tear Los Angeles apart. To save the city - and himself - Aaron Gunner must finally find his calling.

Ted Lewis - 1974 second Jack Carter book!

The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant

London. The late 1960s. It's Christmastime and Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. He's also a worried man. The fact that he's sleeping with Gerald's wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers' money, doesn't have Jack concerned. Instead it's an informant - one of his own men - that has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm to not only bring down Gerald and Les but Jack as well. Jack doesn't like his name in the mouth of that sort. 

In Jack Carter's Law Ted Lewis returned to the character that launched his career and once again delivered a hardboiled masterpiece. Jack Carter is the ideal tour guide to a bygone London underworld. In his quest to dismantle the opposition, he peels back the veneer of English society and offers a hard look at a gritty world of pool halls, strip clubs and the red lights of Soho nightlife.

Jonathan Kellerman, John Lawton, Gerald Kersh,

30s classic!

At the height of the 1930s Depression, Harry Fabian pursues his dream of becoming the top wrestling promoter in London, making money by pimping, blackmail, and scams that send him spiraling ever further into the depths of depravity and immorality.

Grant McKenzie, Boris Starling, Ross MacDonald, John D. MacDonald,

Travis McGee series book 15!

Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for any more thinking....

Grant McKenzie - Scottish-Canadian author!

COULD YOU KILL TO SAVE THEM?
Security guard Sam White's life falls apart when he arrives home to find his house a burnt-out shell with the bodies of his wife and daughter inside.
Then he receives a phone call from a man who claims that his wife and child are alive and Sam can still save them.

But first, he must complete a few simple tasks.

Sam joins forces with Zack Parker whose life has also been ripped apart by the same sadistic kidnapper.

Together they plunge into the dark, labyrinthine underworld of Portland, Oregon. And into a race against time to discover the identity of the kidnapper and save their families before it's too late.

Tub 78 sorted!

HIGHLIGHTS....John D. MacDonald, Charles Willeford, Sam Reaves, Gary Phillips,

LOWLIGHTS..... not sure how many Dick Francis books a person actually needs!


FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
(EN-1)		EYEWITNESS NAM NUMBER 1	1988
(NTVE-1)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 1 A MEAN PLACE TO FIGHT	1990
(NTVE-15) WALLACE	TERRY	NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 15 BLOODS	1990
(NTVE-2)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 2 SEARCH AND DESTROY	1990
(NTVE-3)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 3 THE WAR HOTS UP	1990
(NTVE-4)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 4 VILLAGE WAR AND FRONTIER DEFENCE	1990
(NTVE-5)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 5 DELTA AND JUNGLE PATROLS	1990
(NTVE-6)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 6 KHE SANH AND THE TET OFFENSIVE	1990
(NTVE-7)		NAM THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE 7 THE COLLAPSE OF MORALE	1990
(TVE-23) ISAACS	ARNOLD	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: PAWNS OF WAR	1988
(TVE-9) MORROCCO	JOHN	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: THUNDER FROM ABOVE	1984
(TVE-16) WEISS	STEPHEN	THE VIETNAM EXPERIENCE: A WAR REMEMBERED	1986
BILLINGHAM	MARK	BURIED	2006	TT6
CARCATERRA	LORENZO	SLEEPERS	1995
CARCATERRA	LORENZO	APACHES	1997	A1
CHANG	LEONARD	UNDERKILL	2003	AC2
CUMMING	CHARLES	A SPY BY NATURE	2001	AL1
DELILLO	DON	FALLING MAN	2007
FAULKS	SEBASTIAN	A FOOL'S ALPHABET	1992
FRANCIS	DICK	DRIVING FORCE	1992
FRANCIS	DICK	WILD HORSES	1994
FRANCIS	DICK	DEAD CERT	1962
FRANCIS	DICK	NERVE	1964
FRANCIS	DICK	FOR KICKS	1965
FRANCIS	DICK	TWICE SHY	1981
HARVEY	JOHN	NOW'S THE TIME	2002	R
HAYDER	MO	RITUAL	2008	JC3
HAYWOOD	GAR ANTHONY	FEAR OF THE DARK	1988	AGM1
HENDRICKS	VICKI	VOLUNTARY MADNESS	2000
HIAASEN	CARL	HOOT	2002	J1
HIAASEN	CARL	FLUSH	2005	J2
HIGHSMITH	PATRICIA	THE GLASS CELL	1964
HILL	ERNEST	SATISFIED WITH NOTHIN'	1996
HURLEY	GRAHAM	THE PRICE OF DARKNESS	2008	F+W8
KELLERMAN	JONATHAN	WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS	1985	AD1
KERSH	GERALD	NIGHT AND THE CITY	1938
LAWTON	JOHN	OLD FLAMES	1996	FT2
LEWIS	TED	JACK CARTER AND THE LAW	1974	JC2
MACDONALD	ROSS	THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE	1962	LA10
MACDONALD	ROSS	THE IVORY GRIN	1952	LA4
MACDONALD	JOHN D.	THE TURQUOISE LAMENT	1973	TMG15
McKENZIE	GRANT	SWITCH	2008
MEYER	DEON	7 DAYS	2012	BG3
MILLER	DEREK B.	NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT	2013
PHILLIPS	GARY	PERDITION U.S.A.	1996	IM1
REAVES	SAM	A LONG COLD FALL	1991	CML1
SANDFORD	JOHN	DEAD WATCH	2006
STARLING	BORIS	MESSIAH	1999
VARIOUS		NAKED CAME THE MANATEE	1996
WILLEFORD	CHARLES	WRITING & OTHER BLOOD SPORTS	2000