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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;3617699]Went to a book sale at a neighboring town's library Saturday and again today.
Wound up buying (all paperbacks):[indent]- [B][U]The Burglar Who Quoted Kipling[/U][/B] by Lawrence Block
- [B][U]A Long Line of Dead Men[/U][/B] by Lawrence Block
- [B][U]Farewell, My Lovely[/U][/B] by Raymond Chandler
- [B][U]The Long Goodbye[/U][/B] by Raymond Chandler
- [B][U]The Maltese Falcon[/U][/B] by Dashiell Hammett
- [B][U]The Colorado Kid[/U][/B] by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime - 2005)[/indent]
and, for something completely different:[indent][img]https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780425236031[/img]
[B][U]Murder Past Due[/U][/B] by Miranda James
<[I]A Cat in the Stacks Mystery[/I]>[/indent][/QUOTE]
That one looks interesting. Borrowing out a copy from my library.
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[QUOTE=Tami;4040398][QUOTE=MajorHoy;3617699] . . . and, for something completely different:[indent][img]https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780425236031[/img]
[B][U]Murder Past Due[/U][/B] by Miranda James
<[I]A Cat in the Stacks Mystery[/I]>[/indent][/QUOTE]That one looks interesting. Borrowing out a copy from my library.[/QUOTE]I still haven't tried it, but when I loaned it to my Mother (who turned 88 back in June), she liked it.
Since then, I borrowed all the others (except for the 10th one, [b][U]Six Cats a Slayin'[/U][/b] which just came out in the past couple of months and which I've got on reserve at an area library), plus I've gotten her quite a few other "cozy mystery" series to read, usually with a cat involved.
Right now she's got the last couple of books in [B][I]The Cat Who... [/I][/B] series by Lilian Jackson Braun to read. (There were 29 novels in that series before Braun passed away back in 2011).
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Just put in an order for
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[B][U]Ax[/U][/B] by Ed McBain <[I]87th Precinct[/I] series>[/indent]
using a [FONT=Comic Sans MS]20% off Cyber Monday[/FONT] code I got from the Barnes & Noble website.
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Here's my Mystery Scene review of [url=https://www.mysteryscenemag.com/blog-article/6308-dark-sacred-night]Michael Connelly's [I]Dark Sacred Night[/I][/url].
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I am fan of NERO WOLFE. While Robert Goldsborough isn't as good as Rex Stout, I still enjoy his efforts to continue Stout's legecy.
I recently picked up THE BATTERED BADGE.
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Yesterday at a used bookstore I picked up a copy of
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[B][U]Long Time No See[/U][/B] by Ed McBain
[SIZE=1](September 1987 - Avon Books)[/SIZE]
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@MajorHoy
I finished another Ian Rankin novel and my guess is you'd like Rankin a lot. The problem is there are so many (you don't need to read all of them unless you're there for the soap opera element). My favourites: ResurrectionMen, Standing in another Man's Grave, the Impossible Dead
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[QUOTE=batnbreakfast;4058661]@MajorHoy
I finished another Ian Rankin novel and my guess is you'd like Rankin a lot. The problem is there are so many (you don't need to read all of them unless you're there for the soap opera element). My favourites: ResurrectionMen, Standing in another Man's Grave, the Impossible Dead[/QUOTE]I'm not quite sure . . . these days, I tend to prefer mysteries set during the mid-to-late 20th century and based in the U.S. (since I'm more familiar with that country).
Do any of Rankin's books have that focus?
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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4058782]I'm not quite sure . . . these days, I tend to prefer mysteries set during the mid-to-late 20th century and based in the U.S. (since I'm more familiar with that country).
Do any of Rankin's books have that focus?[/QUOTE]
Ok, give Rankin a chance. All his novels are set in Edinburgh, Scotland and my favourite character of his Inspector Rebus is a cynical, desillusioned detective with a great sense of humor and his heart's still in the right place. Also Rebus and Cafferty have this Daredevil/Kingpin type of relationship I love.
Rankin has won many British awards, Edinburgh is as dark as NY, Detroit or Chicago. It is only smaller ;-)
I have 3 books on my wishlist which one should I get: M.Spillane, L.Block or M.A.Collins?
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[QUOTE=batnbreakfast;4059669]I have 3 books on my wishlist which one should I get: M.Spillane, L.Block or M.A.Collins?[/quote]Good question. It might depend on the specific book.
A little while back I read [indent][img]https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780451203526[/img]
[U][b]The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I[/b][/U]
by Mickey Spillane[SIZE=1] (New American Library 2001)[/SIZE][/indent]
and while it was initially okay, after a while I got tired of Spillane's narration / over-the-top focus on dames and violence.
For Collins, I read [indent][img]http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books/bk38/cover_big.jpg[/img]
[U][b]Deadly Beloved[/b][/U] by Max Allan Collins
[SIZE=1]("[I]The First Ever Ms. Tree Novel[/I]" / Hard Case Crime, 2007)[/SIZE][/indent]
and that was good, but I haven't read any other books by him.
As for Lawrence Block, I picked up a few of his at a library book sale, but haven't tried them yet.
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Oh, and while it's not a book, at [I]Barnes & Noble[/I] today I decided to buy:
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[B][U]Silver Screen Icons: The Thin Man[/U][/B][SIZE=1] <DVD video>[/SIZE]
Features: "[I][U]The Thin Man[/U][/I]" (1934);
"[I][U]After the Thin Man[/U][/I]" (1936);
"[I][U]Another Thin Man[/U][/I]" (1939);
and "[I][U]Shadow of the Thin Man[/U][/I]" (1941)[/indent]
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Recently ordered
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[B][U]The Benson Murder Case[/U][/B] by S. S. Van Dine
<first book in the [I]Philo Vance[/I] series>[/indent]
The story was first published back in 1926, so it should be interesting to see what it's like.
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[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4112020]Recently ordered
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[B][U]The Benson Murder Case[/U][/B] by S. S. Van Dine
<first book in the [I]Philo Vance[/I] series>[/indent]
The story was first published back in 1926, so it should be interesting to see what it's like.[/QUOTE]
I have seen many of the films based on the character, but I have never read any of the books myself.
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Just started reading
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[B][U]Homicide Trinity[/U][/B] by Rex Stout
< "A [I][FONT=Century Gothic]Nero Wolfe[/FONT][/I] Threesome" >
[SIZE=1](orig. Viking edition April published 1962 /
Bantam edition June 1983 - 8th printing)[/SIZE][/indent]
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I would say I have read most of the Rex Stout stories.
I love the A&E tv series from the early 2000's. Sadly lasted only 2 seasons.
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