Well I was going along quite merrily during the month of May, until about halfway through when my resolve cracked and I had a bit of a splurge for my kindle.
After that things settled down again, until an e-mail from
280 Steps advised me of some of their forthcoming titles, which included a re-issue of a Scottish crime author from the 60's and 70's -
Hugh C. Rae and
The Shooting Gallery. After a bit of web browsing and some help from Brian Greene at
Criminal Element, I dug out some information on Mr Rae and some of his intriguing and gritty crime books from back in the day. Several were available cheaply so it would have been remiss of me not to have taken things that one step further.
Whilst on the Criminal Element site, I was looking at another post by Brian which concerned Adam Kennedy's
The Domino Principle - a lost classic of noir apparently. Well I've got to have some of that, so a hop and a skip over to Amazon and another few positive reviews, particularly from Clifford -
here. Bang the wallet's back out again! Roll on cold war, conspiracy, paranoia and a "perfect mystery/thriller" awaits me.
There was a movie adaptation of this with author collaboration and starring Mickey Rourke and Gene Hackman -
The Domino Killings. The film isn't that great apparently and there was a second book called
The Domino Vendetta which also features Roy Foster written in about 1985 - something I'll probably feel compelled to buy as well.
Having temporarily scratched the itch, I'm not making any rash promises for June.
Some of the acquisitions were....
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| 1970 assassination novel. |
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| Short story compilation |
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| Latest 280 Steps offering |
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| More short stories |
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| Essex crime with a psychic! |
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| Great cover and title. |
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| First novel from Out of the Gutter editor |
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| Les likes it - good enough for me! |
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| Scottish crime. |
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| More Scottish crime. |
I particularly like the picture on the cover of Exiles - feel I could do a blog entry with that at the top of the column. And the one with the psychic - I always like books with psychics.
ReplyDeleteThat and Dirtbags are my favourite covers. I can't recall anything with a psychic before.
DeleteCol - I've been hearing such good things about Exiles! It's on my own TBR, and I hope you'll enjoy it. The Laity one interests me, too. I'm keen to hear what you think of it.
ReplyDeleteMargot thanks - looking forward to them all.
DeleteLooks good, Col. I want to read a Laity too.
ReplyDeleteSarah thanks. It'll keep me going until I read a Ward!
DeleteThese are all mean looking novels, Col. I hope the stories inside live up to the cover pictures. I haven't cracked up yet though just yesterday I almost did when I picked up a used novel by Harlan Coben, in his Myron Bolitar series. I have never read any of his books. Later, after reading about the author online, I regretted not buying the book. Sometimes it pays to crack up.
ReplyDeleteAaargh.....you should have bought it mate. Go back on Monday! Re books living up to cover - I hope so too.
DeleteSome of the covers do look very nice, but I will wait and see how you like them. Glen is interested in White Rabbit.
ReplyDeleteI included the skeleton hand just for you! Glen did say to me over on Goodreads that he liked this one, but you were slightly less enthusiastic. We'll see how it goes!
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