David Cranmer's Blog, page 108
December 16, 2011
A Rip Through Time
Charles Gramlich reviews A RIP THROUGH TIME and MILES TO LITTLE RIDGE. Note: TIME is now available at Barnes & Noble.
X-Must #10: The Night and The Music by Lawrence Block
THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC by Lawrence Block: Lawrence Block's 17 Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the Maltese Falcon (Japan). And it's MattScudder who's been largely reponsible for Block's lifetime achievement awards: Grand Master (Mystery Writers of America), The Eye (Private Eye Writers of America), and the Cartier Diamond Dagger (UK Crime Writers Association).
But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and it's all here, from a pair of late-70s novelettes (Out the Window and A Candle for the Bag Lady) through By the Dawn's Early Light (Edgar) and The Merciful Angel of Death (Shamus), all the way to One Last Night at Grogan's, a moving and elegiac story never before published. It was short fiction that kept the series alive on the several occasions when the flow of novels wass ingterrupted, and short stories that took Scudder down different paths and showed us unmapped portions of his world
Chandler at Sotheby's
A first edition of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep inscribed to his wife sells for over $250,000 at Sotheby's M. Hat tip: Chris F. Holm.
Top Rated
Thanks for all the reviews, folks. MILES TO LITTLE RIDGE jumped to number thirteen on Amazon's Top Rated in Westerns! A few more rungs and it joins ADVENTURES Vol. I and II.
December 15, 2011
X-Must #11: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
"From the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out," Twain instructed them in 1906. "There may be a market for that kind of wares a century from now. There is no hurry. Wait and see." -- The New York Times review.
