What (non-comic) Books Are You Reading?

Currently reading

Death in a Bowl by Raoul Whitfield
(originally published in 1931 / 2012 Resurrected Press)

Currently reading:

Meet Me at the Morgue by (John) Ross Macdonald
(copyright 1953 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
and renewed in in 1981 by John Ross Macdonald /
First Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Edition
December 2010)

Currently reading:

The Nothing Man by Jim Thompson
(Copyright 1954 by Jim Thompson
First Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Edition October 1997)

Currently reading:

The Complete Cases of Cash Wale, Volume 2
by Peter Paige (pseudonym of Morton Wolson)
<The Dime Detective Library>
( 2023 Popular Publications, an imprint of Steeger Properties, LLC)
(stories originally published 1941-42)

Currently reading:

Hacking New York by Robert Hazard
(Copyright 1930 by Charles Scribner's Sons /
published April 2024 by Staccato Crime - an imprint of Stark House Press)<SC-010>

NOTE: "Hacking" in this case refers to driving a taxi cab.

Here's what the original cover from 1930 looked like:

Currently reading:

Flair for Murder
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
( 2024 / published by Crippen & Landru Publishers)
(stories originally appeared in This Week magazine Sunday newspaper supplements and also in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1955-1965)

Currently reading:

The Dark Corner / Sleep, My Love by Leo Rosten
(Stark House Press January 2023)
(stories originally published in Good Housekeeping magazine (June-July 1945) and
Collier's magazine (July-August 1946) under the name of Leonard Q. Ross)

Currently reading:




Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
by Robert Leslie Bellem (Book One)
(May 2005 from Pulpville Press)
(stories originally published in Spicy Detective magazine 1935, 1938-1939, 1941, 1943, and 1946)

Currently reading

The Tule Marsh Murder by Nancy Barr Mavity
( 1929 / published by Penzler Publishers 2024)

Currently reading

Golden Age Bibliomysteries edited by Otto Penzler
(published by Penzler Publishers 2023)