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Monday, 14 December 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FIFTY-NINE

Tub 59 and closing in on the 3000 book milestone. I do try and rationalise it by totting up the number of years I've been an avid reader........mitigation and all that.....


Tub 59!

Gar Anthony Haywood, Walter Mosley x 2, Robert Crais, Qunintin Jardine,

Discovered Haywood about 20 years ago in Murder One in London.

Simon Conway, Jim Nisbet, Robert F. Jones. Chris Simms, John Harvey,

San Francisco author

Double dealing and intrigue

Corey Lynn Fayman, Jake Arnott, Russell James, Needle Magazine, Bill Pronzini x 2

Nameless 36 - should be read around February 2018 at current rate of progress

A magazine of Noir!

Last in the Long Firm trilogy

Fred Willard, Charles Bukowski, Jeffery Deaver, Philip Kerr, Michelle Huneven,

Fred Willard - actor, comedian and author,
In Atlanta, Georgia, Ponce De Leon Avenue is a street full of whores, hustlers and hiding places. Sam takes against a malign yuppy who offers him money to kill his wife, and takes the money, and warns the wife. When she, the yuppy and the man Sam got to look after his trailer all end up dead, Sam feels in an abstract way that someone ought to pay, and killing people is nowhere near as satisfactory as taking away their money. He assembles a gang--his favourite psychopath, two crippled down-and-outs and a rockabilly undertaker--and poses as the man from the Columbian cartels. And then the plot begins to get seriously complicated...Fred Willard's bleakly funny first novel has a tone of voice as vigorous as its action sequences, a sense of location and milieu as sharp as its plotting. The planning and execution of jailbreaks and hijackings are ingenious and plausible; more unusually, they are carried out in inventive ways which have as much to do with the characters of Willard's charming foul-mouthed criminals as they do with mere practicality. Crime novels come no more hard-boiled than this. --Roz Kaveney
Debut novel - not crime!

Iceberg Slim, Walter Mosley, John O'Farrell, Greg Williams, OUT OF THE GUTTER Magazine,

Iceberg Slim!

Midgets with AKs and Chicks with Chainsaws!
Danny King, Thomas Eidson, Ian Sansom, Martin Amis,

Standalone Danny King novel

Martin Amis and a gun on the cover!

Len Deighton, Bill Pronzini, John Sandford, Scott Turow, Martin Cruz Smith,

Eugene Izzi, Dennis Lehane, Paul Levine, Nick Tosches, John J. McLaglen,

Posthumously published Izzi novel.

Jake Lassiter series book,

Read it, loved it, not sure I understood it!

Colin Dexter, Martina Cole, G. M. Ford x 2, James Hadley Chase,

1939 book

Graham Hurley, M. J. Rose, Nicholas Blincoe, Zoe Sharp, James Patterson,

2002 Blincoe book

Tub 59 sorted!

HIGHLIGHTS..... Jake Arnott, Gar Anthony Haywood, Eugene Izzi, Paul Levine, Bill Pronzini,

 LOWLIGHTS..... not too sure on the Huneven book now I've read the blurb, will I get on with Morse and Dexter?

 FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
AMIS MARTIN NIGHT TRAIN 1997
ARNOTT JAKE TRUECRIME 2003 LF3
BLINCOE NICHOLAS WHITE MICE 2002
BUKOWSKI CHARLES HAM AND RYE 1982
CHASE JAMES HADLEY THE DEAD STAY DUMB 1939
COLE MARTINA FACELESS 2001
CONWAY SIMON A LOYAL SPY 2010
CRAIS ROBERT THE LAST DETECTIVE 2003 EC9
CRUZ SMITH MARTIN POLAR STAR 1989 AR2
DEAVER JEFFERY THE BURNING WIRE 2010 LR9
DEIGHTON LEN LONDON MATCH 1985 BS3
DEXTER COLIN THE WENCH IS DEAD 1989 IM8
EIDSON THOMAS ST AGNES' STAND 1994
FAYMAN COREY LYNN BLACK'S BEACH SHUFFLE 2006 RWM1
FORD G. M.  A BLIND EYE 2003 FC3
FORD G. M.  RED TIDE 2004 FC4
HARVEY JOHN  GHOSTS OF A CHANCE 1992
HAYWOOD GAR ANTHONY WHEN LAST SEEN ALIVE 1997 AGM5
HUNEVEN MICHELLE ROUND ROCK 1997
HURLEY GRAHAM CUT TO BLACK 2004 F+W5
IZZI EUGENE THE CRIMINALIST 1998
JAMES RUSSELL PAINTING IN THE DARK 2000
JARDINE QUINTIN UNNATURAL JUSTICE 2003 OB7
JONES ROBERT F. BLOOD TIME 1990
KERR PHILIP A QUIET FLAME 2008 BG5
KING DANNY BLUE COLLAR 2009
LEHANE DENNIS DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND 1996 K+G2
LEVINE PAUL MORTAL SIN 1994 JL4
LOUIS MATT OUT OF THE GUTTER 3 (ed.) 2007
McLAGLEN JOHN J. HERNE THE HUNTER 2: RIVER OF BLOOD 1976 HTH2
MOSLEY WALTER BLACK BETTY 1994 ER4
MOSLEY WALTER BAD BOY BRAWLY BROWN 2002 ER7
MOSLEY WALTER CINNAMON KISS 2005 ER10
NISBET JIM PRELUDE TO A SCREAM 1997
O'FARRELL JOHN THIS IS YOUR LIFE 2002
PATTERSON JAMES  ROSES ARE RED 2000 AC6
PRONZINI BILL CAMOUFLAGE 2011 N36
PRONZINI BILL FEVER 2008 N33
PRONZINI BILL HARDCASE 1995 N22
ROSE M. J.  THE HALO EFFECT 2004 BI1
SANDFORD JOHN BROKEN PREY 2005 LD16
SANSOM IAN THE DELEGATE'S CHOICE 2008 ML3
SHARP ZOE HARD KNOCKS 2003 CF3
SIMMS CHRIS SAVAGE MOON 2007 DIJS3
SLIM ICEBERG DOOM FOX 1998
TOSCHES NICK CUT NUMBERS 1988
TUROW SCOTT PRESUMED INNOCENT 1986 KC1
WEDDLE  STEVE NEEDLE ISSUE 3 - WINTER 2010 (ed.) 2010
WILLARD FRED DOWN ON PONCE 1997
WILLIAMS GREG FOOTBALL CRAZY 1999


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16 comments:

  1. Prashant C. Trikannad14 December 2015 at 01:32

    Never tire of a Chase. Never read a Martin Amis yet — my loss. And I'd certainly like to lay my hands on some noir magazines. Good selection, Col.

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    1. col291014 December 2015 at 02:20

      Re Chase - I was looking for a girl in a bikini on the cover but she's AWOL. Amis - I'm hoping his earlier books are better than the last two I've read!

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    2. Prashant C. Trikannad14 December 2015 at 04:16

      Col, I have seen those old Corgi covers in Google images. In fact, I have used a couple of them, I think.

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    3. col291014 December 2015 at 05:15

      Sex was definitely used to try and sell his books!

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  2. Anonymous14 December 2015 at 04:31

    Pronzini, Levine, Mosely, Turow, and a Deighton? Yes, you do have some great ones in that tub, Col! Lots of good reading awaits you, I think.

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    1. col291014 December 2015 at 05:16

      Agreed - not too bad a tub, Margot. I've got the books, just need the time now!

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  3. Clothes In Books14 December 2015 at 07:19

    Some goodies I recognize there Col - I like Jake Arnott, Scott Turow and Denis Lehane. And very surprised to see Fred Willard there! Very funny actor, just thinking of Best in Show makes me laugh.

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    1. col291014 December 2015 at 07:48

      Willard's books were put out by NO EXIT PRESS - a crime imprint. There are two of them and book look right up my street. Down on Ponce - 1998 Princess Voodoo and the Naughty Cadillac (what a title!) from 2000. I'm just adding the blurb for DOWN ON PONCE to the post.

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    2. Clothes In Books15 December 2015 at 04:03

      Thanks - very interesting and unexpected. I am getting a white-on-black effect on the blurb, very clever...

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    3. col291015 December 2015 at 04:35

      Moira, I copied and pasted instead of pasting as plain text - I nearly changed it - but it is striking seeing it like that. I'm wondering if he talks about clothes in either of his books - we'll see if we can get you reading them!

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  4. TracyK14 December 2015 at 12:32

    I have the James' book, PAINTING IN THE DARK. Not read yet, of course. Have you read James Patterson? I read a few of his Alex Cross books then decided that they were too formulaic. He writes well though. At least he keeps you turning the pages.

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    1. col291014 December 2015 at 13:13

      I think the best book I read from Patterson was one of his early standalone novels - BLACK MARKET from the mid-80s. My son and wife started reading the Alex Cross books, so I did too, though I think I've only gotten about three under my belt - formulaic - yes! Mind you, I've read worse.

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  5. noirencyclopedia15 December 2015 at 07:16

    An interesting batch of goodies, Col. I'll be intrigued to find out how you get along with the Turow, when you reach it.

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    1. col291015 December 2015 at 08:27

      I do like a legal thriller now and again and Turow has a decent reputation.

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    2. noirencyclopedia15 December 2015 at 12:11

      He's a bit different from the likes of Grisham and Baldacci. His books have a bit more intellectual heft to them, and he's interested in exploring ethics/morality and the like rather than just dishing up a thriller. I find his books usually very rewarding; in fact, there's one I've had my eye for a few weeks that I'm hoping to read fairly soon.

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    3. col291015 December 2015 at 12:48

      Thanks for the extra info. I've tabbed through his Kindle County series on Fantastic Fiction's site and there does seem to be a bit more depth to some of them. I'll move the first closer to the top of the pile!

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