Sunday 19 October 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART THREE

Week three and my enthusiasm as yet remains undimmed.

Another tub and another fifty.......
A bit of Canadian crime, (more tomorrow), some Thompson's which featured last week and a Petievich.

Spencer (UK author, now deceased), Higgins (US great), Pawson (UK)

Stone (US), Pawson again and an old favourite Charles Williams

Rathbone and Deighton - a touch of espionage. Diehl's book was a film with Burt Reynolds, Simon's is a US PI book, Warner's from Australia.

Hillerman (US),  Brookmyre (Scotland), Corris (Aus) and Peyton Place!  

Vietnam tale, Yardie's in London, Lawrence Sanders and Jim Thompson novelisation of Ironside - remember that TV series? Another Petievich.

Galbraith aka Rowling, Stone, Dorsey, Douglas-Home and some noir from Dominic Stansberry

Two from Woodrell, Lindsay from Scotland, another Valin - Stoner book and Bateman from Ireland.

Italian time - Camilleri and Carofiglio, Dermot Healy, Irish author passed earlier this year, David Henry Sterry - non-fiction account of his life and time as a male prostitute in LA

Scottish and Irish fiction, plus comedian Mark Thomas takes a poke at the arms trade.

Larry Brown, one of my favourites, Kim Wozencraft

Dan Simmons - homage to Richard Stark's Parker books, read it once and I'll read it again. Stark was Donald Westlake writing on a grumpy day.


Highlights or forgotten treasures.......not too many, but also nothing I'd turn my nose up at now either......Dan Simmons, Gerald Petievich, Charles Williams.


Assuming time allows - another 50 next week



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FULL LIST
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BATEMAN COLIN BELFAST CONFIDENTIAL 2005 DS7 F
BROOKMYRE CHRISTOPHER BE MY ENEMY 2003 JP4 F
BROOKMYRE CHRISTOPHER ATTACK OF THE UNSINKABLE RUBBER DUCKS 2007 JP5 F
BROWN LARRY ON FIRE 1995 N
BYRNE TREVOR GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING 2009 F
CAMILLERI ANDREA THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN 2003 IM4 F
CAROFIGLIO GIANRICO A WALK IN THE DARK 2006 GG2 F
CORRIS PETER SAVING BILLIE 2005 CH30 F
CORRIS PETER THE UNDERTOW 2007 CH31 F
DEIGHTON LEN CHARITY 1996 BS9 F
DIEHL WILLIAM SHARKY'S MACHINE 1978 F
DORSEY TIM TIGER SHRIMP TANGO 2014 SS17 F
DOUGLAS-HOME MARK THE SEA DETECTIVE 2011 SD1 F
GALBRAITH   ROBERT  THE CUCKOO'S CALLING 2013 CS1 F
HEADLEY VICTOR EXCESS 1993 Y2 F
HEALY DERMOT SUDDEN TIMES 1999 F
HIGGINS GEORGE V A CITY ON A HILL 1975 F
HIGGINS GEORGE V TRUST 1989 F
HILLERMAN TONY SACRED CLOWNS 1993 JL/JC4 F
HOLLAND WILLIAM E LET A SOLDIER DIE 1984 F
LINDSAY DOUGLAS THE LAST FISH SUPPER 2006 BT6 F
METALIOUS GRACE PEYTON PLACE 1956 PP1 F
PAWSON STUART DEADLY FRIENDS 1998 CP5 F
PAWSON STUART GRIEF ENCOUNTERS 2007 CP12 F
PETIEVICH GERALD SHAKEDOWN 1988 F
PETIEVICH GERALD EARTH ANGELS 1989 F
RATHBONE JULIAN A SPY OF THE OLD SCHOOL 1982 F
SANDERS LAWRENCE THE ANDERSON TAPES 1969 EXD1 F
SHRIER HOWARD BOSTON CREAM 2012 JG3 F
SHRIER HOWARD MISS MONTREAL 2013 JG4 F
SIMMONS DAN HARDCASE 2001 JK1 F
SIMON ROGER L THE STRAIGHT MAN 1986 MW5 F
SPENCER JOHN B PERHAPS SHE'LL DIE 1996 F
SPENCER JOHN B QUAKE CITY 1997 F
STANSBERRY DOMENIC THE LAST DAYS OF IL DUCE 1998 F
STERRY DAVID HENRY CHICKEN 2002 N
STONE JONATHAN THE COLD TRUTH 1999 JP1 F
STONE JONATHAN THE HEAT OF LIES 2001 JP2 F
STONE JONATHAN BREAKTHROUGH 2003 JP3 F
THOMAS MARK AS USED ON THE FAMOUS NELSON MANDELA 2007 N
THOMPSON JIM RECOIL 1953 F
THOMPSON JIM WILD TOWN 1957 F
THOMPSON JIM IRONSIDE 1967 F
VALIN JONATHAN SECOND CHANCE 1991 HS9 F
WARNER DAVE EXXXPRESSO 2000 F
WILLIAMS CHARLES A TOUCH OF DEATH  1954 F
WILLIAMS CHARLES STAIN OF SUSPICION  1958 F
WOODRELL DANIEL WOE TO LIVE ON  1987 F
WOODRELL DANIEL GIVE US A KISS 1996 F
WOZENCRAFT KIM NOTES FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB 1993 F



13 comments:

  1. I'd not thought of Peyton Place as crime fiction before, but I guess it covers pretty much everything!

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    1. Vicki, it might be a stretch maybe. My blog friend, Prashant ( http://chesscomicsandcrosswords.blogspot.co.uk/) wrote about it a month or two ago so I went and looked it up, and feeling nostalgic - vaguely remembering the TV show growing up - I thought I would have some of that!

      I would reckon maybe 15-20% of the library, could possibly fall outside the parameters of crime fiction......biographies, history, current affairs, literature, sport etc.

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  2. Like Vicki, I'm impressed to see Peyton Place there. I noticed Boston Cream - that's the name of a cake, like my Lady Baltimore entry last week, you could have done a matching blogpost, books-named-after-cakes-named-after-cities. Is that THE Jim Thompson writing about Ironside? Very surprising. I used to love Ironside, I am intrigued by this.

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    1. Yes it is THE Jim Thompson. There's a fantastic blogpost on this one I only just found. Link at the end. I can dimly recall watching this as a family. My dad was a fan - and TBH there wasn't an awful lot of TV, especially American TV he would be bothered to watch - IRONSIDE was one of the exceptions.

      http://bookdirtblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/book-review-ironside-by-jim-thompson.html

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    2. PEYTON PLACE - blame Prashant!

      BOSTON CREAM - never knew it was a cake. Spookily I was/am going to do a 2 BY post tomorrow by the author with this book. I checked his other titles I don't think they are cakes! BUFFALO JUMP, HIGH CHICAGO, MISS MONTREAL........or are they.

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  3. Col, it's good to seen Deighton and Sanders in the tubs. I'm planning to revisit at least some of their novels.

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    1. I will be finding a few more Deighton's as I go. Definitely the one and only Sanders on the shelves (tubs) ..... for now at least!

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  4. Col - Oh, I see you have a Camilleri there. That's a series I like very, very much. I know how time goes, etc., but I do hope you get that one.

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    1. Margot, Camilleri's turn will come one day, just don't know when. I read the first years ago and enjoyed it, just haven't been back to him yet. I think I have possibly got the first 10 in the series......if my brains were made of dynamite - I wouldn't have enough to blow my hat off! Madness

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  5. You don't need any new books, Col. Plenty to read there. Just in that one tub.

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    1. Tracy, you are so right. It's kind of embarrassing doing this logging lark. I'm enjoying it as I'm re-discovering old forgotten books, but it's a bit humiliating airing the idiocy of my habit. I could read my way through the library a tub at a time and never need to buy another book in probably two lifetimes.

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    2. Don't worry, Col, I have many plastic containers of books in my garage in addition to bookshelves inside. I have the same problem just continuing to buy books. I get frustrated because I can only read a limited number of them a month.

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    3. I'm going to seriously try not to buy anything or request anything for November and December. If I'm offered something - maybe a different story!

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