Monday 1 June 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART THIRTY-FOUR

Tub 34 and 50 more books, bringing the total logged to 1700,
Pre-logging look!

4 x Tom Ripley by Highsmith


Martin Beck series book,

Ross MacDonald, Agatha Christie, Martin Edwards, Garry Disher, Michael Dibdin,

Aurelio Zen book

Australian crime

Harry Devlin book

Lew Archer series book

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mark Brandon Read, John Williams, James Sallis, Garry Disher,

Another Wyatt series book,

US crime

Probably a bit more literary than crime,

Craig Robertson, John Dufresne, Jeff Abbott, Loren D. Estleman, Georges Simenon,

Great title, great cover,

Not too sure on the content, but I must have liked the sound of it when I bought it,
Roman Durs.....whatever that is?

Scottish crime

Derek Haas - 3-fer,

Helen MacInnes, Garry Disher, Robert G. Barrett,

40's book

Another Aussie Wyatt book

Dennis Tafoya, Roger L. Simon, Jerry Stahl, Gregory McDonald, Q. R. Markham,

Everybody loves Fletch!


Jerry Stahl book

70's Moses Wine series book

Dennis Tafoya latest offering

Bill Granger, Robert Littell, Dick Lochte, Katherine Howell, Dashiell Hammett,

Dick Lochte - Series book!

Intrigue and espionage

Short stories I believe 
Tipped off to this one by Prashant!

Katherine Howell - Australia!

Hugh C. Rae, Clay Reynolds, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich,

Cornell Woolrich,

Hammett hard-boiled!

Clay Reynolds - Texas set!

Mark Stubbs, Joseph D. Haske, Graham Greene, George Simenon, x 2

Prolific Belgium author

Classic Greene

More Roman Durs!

Love the cover!

Robert Ludlum, Angela Savage, Stona Fitch, John Gardner, Helen MacInnes,

Scottish author - another 40's book

Boysie Oakes series book,

Robert Ludlum, 

US Crime

Australian author,

Post-logging look!
Highlights......I'm looking forward to Haske's book, Dennis Tafoya and Jerry Stahl. I can start Garry Disher's Wyatt series now I've located the first couple. Georges Simenon, I haven't yet read. Markham's book was published then pulled - so that'll be interesting.

Lowlights......nothing frightening. 

Hopefully I have better luck second time around tackling Patricia Highsmith's Ripley.


The full 50 as follows:
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
ABBOTT JEFF THE LAST MINUTE 2011 SC2 F
BARRETT ROBERT G. WHITE SHOES, WHITE LINES AND BLACKIE 1992 LN6 F
CAMPBELL BONNIE JO Q ROAD 2002 F
CHRISTIE AGATHA CROOKED HOUSE 1949 F
DIBDIN MICHAEL MEDUSA 2003 AZ9 F
DISHER GARRY KICKBACK 1993 W1 F
DISHER GARRY PAYDIRT 1993 W2 F
DISHER GARRY DEATHDEAL 1994 W3 F
DUFRESNE JOHN LOUSIANA POWER AND LIGHT 1994 F
EDWARDS MARTIN SUSPICIOUS MINDS 1992 HD2 F
ESTLEMAN LOREN D. GAS CITY 2008 F
FITCH STONA GIVE + TAKE 2008 F
GARDNER JOHN THE LIQUIDATOR 1964 BO1 F
GRANGER BILL PUBLIC MURDERS 1980 F
GREENE GRAHAM OUR MAN IN HAVANA 1958 F
HAAS DEREK THE SILVER BEAR 2008 SBT1 F
HAAS DEREK HUNT FOR THE BEAR 2009 SBT2 F
HAAS DEREK DARK MEN 2011 SBT3 F
HAMMETT DASHIELL THE DAIN CURSE 1931 F
HAMMETT DASHIELL THE CONTINENTAL OP 1945 F
HASKE JOSEPH D. NORTH DIXIE HIGHWAY 2013 F
HIGHSMITH PATRICIA THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY 1955 R1 F
HIGHSMITH PATRICIA RIPLEY UNDER GROUND 1970 R2 F
HIGHSMITH PATRICIA RIPLEY'S GAME 1974 R3 F
HIGHSMITH PATRICIA THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY 1981 R4 F
HOWELL KATHERINE FRANTIC 2007 DEM1 F
LITTELL ROBERT THE OCTOBER CIRCLE 1976 F
LOCHTE DICK LAUGHING DOG 1988 LB+SD2 F
LUDLUM ROBERT THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND 1972 F
MACDONALD ROSS THE WYCHERLY WOMAN 1961 LA9 F
MACINNES HELEN WHILE STILL WE LIVE 1944 F
MACINNES HELEN HORIZON 1945 F
MARKHAM Q. R. ASSASSIN OF SECRETS 2011 F
McDONALD GREGORY CARIOCA FLETCH 1984 F7 F
RAE HUGH C. THE SHOOTING GALLERY 1972 F
READ MARK BRANDON CHOPPER 2 1992 N
REYNOLDS CLAY RAGE 1994 F
ROBERTSON CRAIG SNAPSHOT 2011 F
SALLIS JAMES THE KILLER IS DYING 2011 F
SAVAGE ANGELA BEHIND THE NIGHT BAZAAR 2012 JK2 F
SIMENON GEORGES ACT OF PASSION 1952 F
SIMENON GEORGES THE STAIN ON THE SNOW 1953 F
SIMENON GEORGES MONSIEUR MONDE VANISHES 1967 F
SIMON ROGER L. WILD TURKEY 1974 MW2 F
SJOWALL/WAHLOO MAJ/PER MURDER AT THE SAVOY 1970 MB6 F
STAHL JERRY PAIN KILLERS 2009 MR2 F
STUBBS  MARK PEAR SHAPED 2003 F
TAFOYA DENNIS THE POORBOY'S GAME 2014 F
WILLIAMS JOHN STONER 1965 F
WOOLRICH CORNELL I MARRIED A DEAD MAN 1948 F

18 comments:

  1. These are some great authors, Col! Disher, Mcdonald/Millar, one of the Martin Beck books, and Dibdin too - nice. And I saw that Agatha Christie! :-)

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    1. Margot thanks. Christie lurks in the tubs! Not in any great numbers, but a few for a taster!

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  2. I have a book by Bill Granger, but it's a cookbook, so I'm guessing a different Bill. Like Margot, I clocked the Christie - that would be a very good one to start on...

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    1. It might be the same one - an American Len Deighton maybe? If only I'd logged this one a month earlier I could have read CROOKED HOUSE for the meme! (No 1934 book located yet!)

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    2. How do you know it's 1934? I can't see it anywhere...

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    3. One of the last comments on the '49-page......my heart sunk

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    4. Oh dear you are so unlucky! You definitely need to start trying to influence the choices....

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    5. Yes, I do. I have found the book to read though, even if I did have to buy it on kindle for a pound. I have my own copy, but haven't uncovered it yet.

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  3. I've read the Ripley books, Act Of Passion and Our Man In Havana. All very good indeed!

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    1. I should give Ripley another go at some point and I've not yet tried any of Simenon's work. I keep getting waylaid by newer books!

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  4. Col, you got some great books by equally great authors here. I'm familiar with Angela Savage via her blog though I have not read her fiction yet. I'll be looking forward to your reviews of her novels. Thanks for the mention — PUBLIC MURDERS is realistic and gritty with some excellent police procedural. I have a feeling you will like it.

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    1. I think I bought Angela's book after Margot mentioned her more than once and she does drop in on her blog occasionally. I don't follow Angela's blog TBH, maybe I will see after reading her book. Looking forward to the Granger, someday!

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  5. This is a classic box - lots there I'd like to read +/- re-read. I really like Helen MacInnes but I fear she might be too romantic for you... ;-)

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    1. Vicki, I hope she isn't but I'll soon find out...soon being sometime in the next 10 years or so.

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  6. This tub looks to be a winner! Highsmith should be raised all the way to the top of your list however. Next to Derek Raymond, she is a must read.

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    1. Highsmith and Raymond - ok duly noted. I don't think you've steered me wrong yet!

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  7. You have a lot that I want to read here (in addition to the ones already mentioned in comments by others). The Gary Disher Wyatt books. I have not found any of those. The Cornell Woolrich. Glen is interested in his books. And a Harry Devlin book. I have the first in that series.

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    1. I'm trying to cut down on getting new books, even review copies and freebies so I can read more of my own. I want to get back to doing some series reading, which I started in 2013 - one a month working my way forwards. Disher and Wyatt should figure at some point.

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