Tuesday 29 September 2015

2 BY DEREK RAYMOND

2 from the man often referred to as the Godfather of British noir – Derek Raymond.

Raymond wrote 5 books in his Factory series starring an unnamed detective. (Not to be confused with Bill Pronzini’s Nameless!)

Factory
1. He Died with His Eyes Open (1976)
2. The Devil's Home on Leave (1985)
3. How the Dead Live (1986)
4. I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
5. Dead Man Upright (1993)







Over the course of his career there were about 8 or 9 other books, some initially seeing print under the name Robin Cook. Again not to be confused with the prolific author of medical type thrillers.

Derek Raymond died in 1994. I still haven’t read him yet.

There’s an interesting piece from 2013 in The New York Review of Books on a couple of the books and the series in general here. I’ve only skim read it in case it spoils things for me!

 

He Died With His Eyes Open (1976)

The first of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. A boozed-out tramp found under a bush in West London has been systematically butchered. The awesome depths of violent passion that the victim must have inspired fascinates the detective sergeant put on the case.











I Was Dora Suarez (1990)


One of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. Next door to the bloodied remains of London prostitute Dora Suarez lies the broken body of an 86-year-old widow, and a mile away the brains of a sleazy West End racketeer are found adorning the walls of his dining room.



Derek Raymond

Monday 28 September 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-NINE

Closing in on 50 tubs and 2500 books sorted, tub 49.....
John Goldbach, Paul Thomas, 2 x Michael Simon, C.J. Box,

New Zealand set crime

Intriguing cover

Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Lydon, Tom Rob Smith, Friedrich Durrenmatt x 2,

Jon Courtenay Grimwood,

Reginald Hill, Larry Watson, Valerio Varesi, Denzil Meyrick, Michael Codella/Bruce Bennett,

Non-fiction

Italian mystery

Ruth Rendell, Rory MacLean, Richard Belfield, Harry Bingham, Brian Fawcett,

Eastern Europe travelogue.

Martin Limon x 2, Ruth Rendell, Paul Thomas, Peter Lovesey,

Not read the lady yet!

Helen Giltrow, Michael Connelly, Matthew Branton, Raymond Chandler x 2,

Dallas Murphy x 2, Tucker Coe, Gary Phillips, Jack Winchester,

Charlotte Jay, Victor Canning, Ray Bradbury, Michael Gilbert, Michael Simon,

Pseudonymous Brian Freemantle novel.

US Crime

1990s 

David Craig, Jonathan Lethem, Stephen Solomita x 2, Robert Pollock,

Bradbury writes mystery!

Cambodian themed non-fiction essays

Solomita - a favourite author of mine!

Literary crime
1999 

Joe Gores x 2, Lee Goldberg x 2, Jonathan Ames,

Jonathan Ames

Tub 49

HIGHLIGHTS..... pretty much everything looks interesting with a smattering of non-fiction. Robert Pollock, Martin Limon, Joe Gores, Michael Simon, Paul Thomas, etc etc

LOWLIGHTS..... nothing to fear here!

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
AMES JONATHAN I PASS LIKE THE NIGHT 1989
BELFIELD RICHARD TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE 2005
BINGHAM HARRY THE STRANGE DEATH OF FIONA GRIFFITHS 2014 FG3
BOX C. J. THE HIGHWAY 2013 CD1
BRADBURY RAYMOND DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS 1985 CM1
BRANTON MATTHEW THE HIRED GUN 2001
CANNING VICTOR THE MASK OF MEMORY 1974
CHANDLER RAYMOND FAREWELL, MY LOVELY 1940 PM2
CHANDLER RAYMOND THE BIG SLEEP 1939 PM1
CODELLA/BENNETT MICHAEL/BRUCE ALPHAVILLE 2010
COE TUCKER MURDER AMONG CHILDREN 1967 MT2
CONNELLY MICHAEL THE BURNING ROOM 2014 HB19
COURTENAY GRIMWOOD JON 9TAIL FOX 2005
CRAIG DAVID THE ALIAS MAN 1968 RR1
DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH THE PLEDGE 1958
DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH THE EXECUTION OF JUSTICE 1989
FAWCETT BRIAN CAMBODIA: A BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO FIND TELEVISION TOO SLOW 1986
GILBERT MICHAEL ROLLER COASTER 1994 PP3
GILTROW HELEN THE DISTANCE 2014
GOLDBACH JOHN THE DEVIL AND THE DETECTIVE 2013
GOLDBERG LEE MR MONK ON THE ROAD 2011 M11
GOLDBERG LEE MR MONK ON PATROL 2012 M13
GORES JOE CONS, SCAMS & GRIFTS 2001 DKA7
GORES JOE STAKEOUT ON PAGE STREET 2000 DKA6
HILL REGINALD WHO GUARDS A PRINCE 1982
JAY CHARLOTTE BEAT NOT THE BONES 1952
LETHEM JONATHAN MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN 1999
LIMON MARTIN SLICKY BOYS 1997 GS+EB2
LIMON MARTIN JADE LADY BURNING 1992 GS+EB1
LOVESEY PETER DEAD GORGEOUS 1989
LYDON JOHN ANGER IS AN ENERGY: MY LIFE UNCENSORED 2014
MACLEAN RORY STALIN'S NOSE 1992
MEYRICK DENZIL THE LAST WITNESS 2014 DCID2
MURPHY DALLAS APPARENT WIND 1991
MURPHY DALLAS LOVER MAN 1987 ADM1
PHILLIPS GARY THE WARLORD OF WILLOW RIDGE 2012
POLLOCK ROBERT LOOPHOLE (OR HOW TO ROB A BANK) 1973
RENDELL RUTH TIGERLILY'S ORCHIDS 2010
RENDELL RUTH THE SAINT ZITA SOCIETY 2012
SIMON MICHAEL THE LAST JEW STANDING 2007 DR4
SIMON MICHAEL DIRTY SALLY 2004 DR1
SIMON MICHAEL BODY SCISSORS 2005 DR2
SMITH TOM ROB THE FARM 2014
SOLOMITA STEPHEN NO CONTROL 1999
SOLOMITA STEPHEN TRICK ME TWICE 1998
THOMAS PAUL DEATH ON DEMAND 2012 TI4
THOMAS PAUL SEX CRIMES 2003
VARESI VALERIO THE DARK VALLEY 2010 CSM1
WATSON LARRY LET HIM GO  2013
WINCHESTER JACK THE SOLITARY MAN 1980

Saturday 26 September 2015

MARK PRYOR - THE BLOOD PROMISE (2014)


Synopsis/blurb…….

Hugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life.

In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes history.

Two hundred years later, Hugo Marston is safeguarding an unpredictable but popular senator who is in Paris negotiating a France/U.S. dispute. The talks, held at a country chateau, collapse when the senator accuses someone of breaking into his room. Theft becomes the least of Hugo's concerns when someone discovers a sailor's chest and the secrets hidden within, a
and decides that the power and money they promise are worth killing for.

But when the darkness of history is unleashed, even the most ruthless and cunning are powerless to control it.

My fourth time around the block with Mark Pryor and his series character – US embassy security guy, Hugo Marston. Marston has to babysit an American senator during some talks over a French territory. During the night the senator believes his room has been broken into whilst he was asleep and cries foul. His French host proves difficult in allowing any investigatory access to his family and guests deeming it insulting. A cursory investigation follows…..a few fingerprints taken and some staff members quizzed.

Interestingly the prints provide a match to a set lifted from a robbery-homicide elsewhere in France. An old lady died and a family chest went missing. Hugo believes the chest was one he saw at the chateau where the talks are being held. On return, the chest has vanished and soon our American senator starts behaving peculiarly.

Another enjoyable read, interesting characters – a lot of them repeat from earlier books and whilst I like the main man and his sidekick Tom, I don’t despair or share his sense of disappointment over his off-off relationship with his reporter girlfriend. I’m not fully sold on him yet – maybe one more book and you never know. Without spoiling, we say goodbye to one repeating character and possibly usher in another new one.

Decent mystery, decent plot. Great setting – Paris and a few points beyond in the French countryside. A bit of French and American history thrown into our back story and it all hung well together.

A small scene at the end where all and sundry stand solemn faced over the fresh dug grave of a two-hundred year old corpse, had me scratching my head. FFS…. Really? It’s the little things like that that just have me slightly at odds with the author…….maybe I just lack human empathy, who knows?

3.5 from 5 so probably getting rounded to a 4 when I post this elsewhere.

Link to my earlier reviews of Mark Pryor’s work and Hugo Marston are below. The Blood Promise is the 3rd Marston book published but sits after The Crypt Thief as The Button Man was a prequel.

Hugo Marston

5. The Reluctant Matador (2015) – yet to be read!
He has a new book out a standalone in Ocotober – Hollow Man.

The author’s website is here.

Copy received from the publishers – Seventh Street Books – thanks

Friday 25 September 2015

ED McBAIN - GUNS (1976)


Synopsis/blurb…..

Colley Donato loved guns. Even more than his women. He was sixteen when he first shot a guy – with an Astra Firecat pistol.

Brought up in Harlem, he lived amongst the hookers, pimps and junkies. A gun wasn’t a luxury, it was a necessity. Folks either liked you or killed you.

For the liquor store job he used his .38 Detective’s Special. Killed a cop in the process and wished he hadn’t.

Being on the run, even for a pro like Colley, Cops everywhere. Sure, ex-stripper Jeanine helped him as did his old friend Benny, a pimp from the Bronx.

But in the end, it was all down to him. And he knew it……

A 1976 Ed McBain stand-alone for Past Offences’ Crimes of the Century meme. See other blogger's offerings here.


I’ve not read too much from McBain over the years, but based on my enjoyment of this harsh and brutal offering that’s something I’ll need to address.

We have a small gang of hold-up guys planning a liquor store robbery – their 13th job together. Colley wants to hold off because of the heat, more than superstition. Jocko, the leader is broke and insistent. You just know things are going to go wrong ……. and they do!

Two cops surprise them in the act and Colley shoots one, Jocko shoots the other but not before being wounded himself. With the help of the wheelman Teddy they escape back to Jocko’s apartment and his ex-stripper wife - Jeanine.

The late TV news confirms that one detective has died and another is wounded. Colley Donato’s living on borrowed time.

He visits a neighbourhood pal, Benny the pimp. He confesses and on his way to his mother’s house is shocked to find the police onto him so quickly. They are on the streets handing out fliers identifying him. A foot cop recognises him and the shout goes up. A chase ensues and Colley achieves a small triumph by eluding the cops, flipping them off in the process.

Back to Jocko’s, where things are not all well with our wounded leader and his wife. Jocko has systematically brutalised his wife over the years and she confides to Colley that she hopes he dies. Colley sees her bruises and a whole lot more and when Jocko drags himself from his bed and discovers the pair intimate, his rage explodes again. Colley’s a witness to Jeanine receiving more punishment before she grabs a kitchen knife and retaliates. Dreams can come true! Somewhat reluctantly as far as Donato is concerned, carnal relations resume on a blood-soaked floor.

Hasty plans are set in motion. Flee the city, get down South to Fort Myers where Jeanine lived before and somewhere she was once happy. Colley goes along with it, until he rebels. A botched diner robbery for some cash reserves, sees Colley shoot a short-order cook before abandoning Jeanine outside and heading for the woods. Fort Myers isn’t part of his future, especially not with a crazy lady. He’s a New York City boy.

City boys don’t do too well in the woods and Colley gets attacked by a massive dog on the loose, before managing to shoot his foaming attacker. Whilst recovering from the shock, he’s then laid out by the irate dog owner. I had visions of a re-enactment of a scene out of Deliverance as Colley comes to in a run-down hut guarded by an old hag – his captor’s wife, sister, lover….all three? His assailant returns with his slightly less mad brother. Eventually Colley outsmarts the trio – a considerable feat considering he isn’t the sharpest tool in the box himself and flees again.

Treatment for dog bites, another town and some flirting with another waitress. Colley harbouring delusions of a normal life, which isn’t going to happen. Another pursuit from the cops and an attempted gun store robbery. Colley’s race is nearly run.   

Overall verdict – marvellous.

A great main character – Colley Donato; we have his family history, his descent into a life of crime. We are interested observers in his outcome, although we sense he’s doomed from the minute he unloads on the cop. A cop killer but someone who still had me rooting for him, during his various scrapes and escapades.

Harsh and brutal, with the odd splash off humour in some of our scenes. I was a wee bit surprised by some of McBain’s language. Perhaps if I had read more from him I wouldn’t have been.

4.5 out of 5


Amazon order history tells me I bought this for £2.76 back in May, 2006

Thursday 24 September 2015

PIERRE BOILEAU AND THOMAS NARCEJAC - VERTIGO (1954)


Synopsis/blurb……..

"Do you think it's possible to live again, Monsieur? ... I mean ... is it possible to die and then ... live again in someone else?"

You're no longer in the police, but when an old friend asks you to look after his wife as a favour, how can you refuse? She's been behaving strangely, mysteriously - but she's dazzling. And so Flavières begins to scour the streets of Paris in search of an answer - in search of a woman who belongs to no one, not even to herself. Soon intrigue is replaced by obsession, and dreams by nightmares, as the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to blur.
This is the story of a desperate man. A man who ended up compromising his own morality beyond all measure, while the Second World War raged outside his front door. A man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a dark, terrible secret.

A bit of classic crime fiction with French double act Boileau and Narcejac’s 1954 book Vertigo – the basis for Hitchcock’s classic film.
Co-authors and film-maker.

Set in war-time Paris, former detective Flavieres is asked by an old friend Gevigne to keep an eye on his wife. Something appears to be troubling Madeleine but her husband can’t put his finger on it.
Flavieres, a lawyer and a loner agrees and very soon becomes obsessed with Madeleine. Madeleine behaves strangely, visiting a graveyard, renting a hotel room for afternoon visits, penning letters but ripping them into pieces before attempting to drown herself. Flavieres rescues her and as a consequence his relationship with her becomes more intimate (not in a physical sense).

She is convinced that she has lived before, as one of her ancestors – Pauline Lagerlac - her great grandmother who committed suicide. The Paris narrative ends with the death of Madeleine falling from a high church tower in a town away from the capital. Flavieres again, overcome by vertigo is impotent and unable to prevent her sudden actions.

At this point in reading, I realised I had seen the film albeit some years previously. Long enough ago to have forgotten the outcome anyway.

The second part of our book, picks up four years later in Marseilles. Flavieres is still alone, his life revolving around his next drink. A chance viewing of a newsreel clip featuring DeGaulle in Marseilles and Flavieres believes he catches a glimpse of Madeleine as the camera pans the crowd.

His obsession reawakens.

Fantastic book, complex, convoluted plot but plausible enough or at least not too fanciful to require a suspension of belief. Flavieres is interesting as our protagonist; he’s neither loathsome or sympathetic, which is a clever portrayal and balancing act. Did I care about him and his outcome? Probably not, I was more interested in getting to the bottom of the book.   

Great read

4.5 out of 5.

I’m tempted to re-watch the film soon. Vertigo the movie is set in the US unlike the book. I’m unable to remember whether the two – that difference apart – resemble each other closely or not. It’ll be interesting to check.

Vertigo has recently been republished by Pushkin Vertigo Press. Their website is here. A recent blog post highlighted their recent launch and mission statement. Here.

I received a copy of this from them.



Wednesday 23 September 2015

BENEDICT J. JONES - THE BOOK OF SKIN (2015)


Synopsis/blurb…..

When a rare book bound in human skin goes missing the prestigious University it belongs to is unwilling to risk bad publicity by calling in the police and so turn to ex-con turned private investigator Charlie "Bars" Constantinou. He finds himself plunged into the murky world of book theft, femme fatales that are literally all fur coat and no knickers, pitiless thugs and the chance to make himself some money. Just what is the secret of the Book of Skin...

Another Benedict Jones – Charlie Bars offering – The Book of Skin and another great short piece at 26 or 27 pages long. Plenty of depth and substance to it.

Charlie is looking into the disappearance of a £10k rare book, bound in human skin from a university. Subject of said missing tome – a 19th century study of sex magic!

Great dialogue, great one liners – on his way out of the uni, Charlie spots a security guard he knows….

“Money’s good and I might get to smack a student in the mouth.”
He grins at me. Always did have an aversion to learning.

With more valuable books left alone and after an inventory check some more on a similar subject matter also missing; Charlie has an inkling on the reason for the theft, and a possible suspect.

There’s some steamy sex with another employee of the university and after a second round of frolics, Charlie sustains a beating. His sex partner having set him up - The Book of Skin is in demand. Persons unknown want to get their hands on it.

Following up on our hunch, Charlie has a bruising encounter with a frustrated spinster and her sturdy rubber sex toy. He’s solved the case and recovered the goods.

However a final twist still hits us, as Constantinou is forced to display a certain amount of pragmatism in the face of a threat to his mum. Our avaricious collector is determined to have the book at any cost.

The Book of Skin has a new home.

Top story, superb characters, plenty of action and dialogue.

Charlie Bars has a certain rogue-like, wide-boy quality that makes him excellent company and one of the most interesting series characters I have read about in the past few months. Street smart and loyal, definitely a man you would want on your side.

4.5 from 5.

Benedict J. Jones – Skewered and other London Cruelties was recently enjoyed. Review here.

You can catch up with the author at his website here. On Facebook here and he’s on Twitter - @benedictjjones




The Book of Skin was recently downloaded from Smashwords for free. Link here. Check it out while you still can.

Tuesday 22 September 2015

2 BY MARK SAFRANKO

Mark SaFranko has been on my radar for a few years - ever since I crossed paths with Murder Slim Press.



I hoovered up a few of his books - ok all of them then..... Hating Olivia, Hopler's Statement, God Bless America.....and the others. But never found the time to read them so boxed them up.



Last month whilst sorting the tubs, I came across The Favor and thought - why not. A wise choice as it proved to be one of my best book's last month - review here.



SaFranko composes, sings, writes, acts and paints..... and probably a few other things besides!

His website is here.

Four of his books are perhaps semi-autobiographical (if I'm wrong he might tell me!) and concern a recurring character - Max Zajack.
Probably not crime fiction but intriguing enough for me to rescue them from the buried books in the tubs when I find them.

2016 ought to be the year of the Max reading-wise!



The full list of his books from Fantastic Fiction website:


Max Zajack
1. Hating Olivia (2004)
2. Lounge Lizard (2007)
3. God Bless America (2010)
4. Dirty Work (2014)

Novels
The Favor (1988)
Hopler's Statement (1998)
No Strings (2012)
The Suicide (2014)

Collections
Loners (2008)


Dirty Work (2014)

"Dirty Work" is the fourth of Mark SaFranko's series of Max Zajack novels and follows the critically acclaimed "Hating Olivia," "Lounge Lizard" and "God Bless America." "Dirty Work" is the bridge between "God Bless America" and "Hating Olivia." Max has left school and is searching for a steady job that gives him enough sanity to survive. . .and enough free time to write. Drawing comparisons to both "Factotum" and "Death on the Installment Plan", the novel charts Max's struggles to make cash and become a great artist. As he writes: "How often does a man love what he's doing? Once or twice in a lifetime if he's lucky. For the artist it's more complicated. He's absorbed in himself, in his own inner machinery. The external world, the realm of dollars and cents, isn't usually of much interest to him. . .I didn't know what I was. But was I an artist? Where was the evidence? Right then and there I should have gotten up and walked out. But I didn't. When I suffered, I tended to stay put and suffer more."



The Suicide (2014)


Hoboken: an amorphous, former street-fighting city, transformed into a chic high-rent neighbourhood full of disposable incomes and high aspiration. Police detective Brian Vincenti is charged with investigating the case of a young woman's suicide - or murder - after she falls from an 11th floor window in an up-and-coming district. Equally as haunted by his past as he is tortured by his present, Vincenti's journey takes us beyond the damp, stained streets of Hoboken's nightlife and into his own chaotic world.










Monday 21 September 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-EIGHT

The seemingly never ending task continues.....

Tub 48

Jack Kerouac, Gerald Seymour, Kingsley Amis, Horace McCoy, Mark Childress,

McCoy from the 50s

Jeff Abbott, Irvine Welsh, Malcolm Pryce, Charles Carillo, Donald Westlake,

Interesting looking book - Charles Carillo

Westlake standalone

Jo-Ann Goodwin, Chester Himes, John Colapinto, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Noah Boyd,

Tim Butcher, John Irving, David Peace, Donald Westlake, Chuck Hogan,

Eric Garcia, John Irving, John Trolan, Tonino Benacquista x 2

French author

More from Benacquista

Joseph Kanon, Tom Sharpe, C. J. Box, Malcolm Pryce, Clarence Cooper Jr.

Graham Greene chunkster

Bedtime reading to make your arms ache

Shane Maloney, John Harvey, Robert Newman
Peter James, Mark Timlin, Peter Rabe, Charles Williams, John Harvey

Early 60s pulp

David Morrell, Lorenzo Carcaterra x 2, Jonathan King, Joe Gores

Tub 48 put to bed


HIGHLIGHTS......... I'm looking forward to Benacquista's books when I get there, Charles Carillo also and John Trolan and Donald Westlake.

LOWLIGHTS........... I probably wouldn't buy Malcolm Pryce today as I didn't really enjoy the first from him...more fool me then! Peter James - why couldn't it be 150 pages shorter?

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
ABBOTT JEFF TRUST ME 2009
AMIS KINGSLEY LUCKY JIM 1954 JD1
BENACQUISTA TONINO HOLY SMOKE 2004 A1
BENACQUISTA TONINO FRAMED 2006 A2
BOX C. J. THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE 2008
BOYD NOAH THE BRICKLAYER 2010 SV1
BUTCHER TIM BLOOD RIVER 2007
CARCATERRA LORENZO CHASERS 2007 A2
CARCATERRA LORENZO GANGSTER 2001
CARILLO CHARLES MY RIDE WITH GUS 1996
CHILDRESS MARK CRAZY IN ALABAMA 1993
COLAPINTO JOHN ABOUT THE AUTHOR 2001
COOPER JR. CLARENCE BLACK 1997
GARCIA ERIC CASSANDRA FRENCH'S FINISHING SCHOOL FOR BOYS 2004
GOODWIN JO-ANN SWEET GUM 2006
GORES JOE HAMMETT 1975
GREENE GRAHAM THE HEART OF THE MATTER 1940
GREENE GRAHAM STAMBOUL TRAIN 1932
GREENE GRAHAM A BURNT-OUT CASE 1960
GREENE GRAHAM THE QUIET AMERICAN 1955
GREENE GRAHAM LOSER TAKES ALL 1955
GREENE GRAHAM THE POWER AND THE GLORY 1940
GREENE GRAHAM THE THIRD MAN 1950
HARVEY JOHN LIVING PROOF 1995 R7
HARVEY JOHN B. HART 3: TAGO 1980 H3
HIMES CHESTER RUN MAN RUN 1966
HOGAN CHUCK THE TOWN 2004
IRVING JOHN A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR 1998
IRVING JOHN LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER 2009
JAMES PETER DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS 2008 RG4
KANON JOSEPH THE GOOD GERMAN 2001
KEROUAC JACK ON THE ROAD 1957
KING JONATHON SHADOW MEN 2004 MF3
MALONEY SHANE SOMETHING FISHY 2002 MW5
MANCHETTE JEAN-PATRICK THREE TO KILL 2002
McCOY HORACE I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME 1951
MORRELL DAVID DOUBLE IMAGE 1998
NEWMAN ROBERT MANNERS 1998
PEACE DAVID THE DAMNED UTD 2006
PRYCE MALCOLM THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING IN ABERYSTWYTH 2005 LKM3
PRYCE MALCOLM LAST TANGO IN ABERYSTWYTH 2003 LKM2
RABE PETER THE BOX 1962
SEYMOUR GERALD THE DEALER AND THE DEAD 2010
SHARPE TOM WILT IN NOWHERE 2004 W4
TIMLIN MARK HEARTS OF STONE 1992 NS7
TROLAN JOHN ANY OTHER TIME 2000
WELSH IRVINE GLUE 2001
WESTLAKE DONALD SACRED MONSTER 1989
WESTLAKE DONALD DON'T ASK 1993 D8
WILLIAMS CHARLES AGROUND 1961