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1: Prince of Wolves – Dave Gross
2: Death’s Heretic -James L. Sutter
3: The Worldwound Gambit – Robin D. Laws: Paizo had a special, buy two get one free, on these Pathfinder fanmtasies. So I took a chance.
4: Queens Full – Ellery Queen: a collection of three novelettes and two short stories featuring Ellery Queen.
5: The Glass Village – Ellery Queen: from 1954, a non-Ellery mystery. Because of the date, I’m assuming it was written by the two cousins and not the ghost-written books of the late sixties.
Interjection: there was a third Queen book delivered, Q. B. I., that I refused delivery on. It arrived with postage due, $.84. I’d already paid Amazon $3.99 for shipping & handling and wasn’t about to pay more. I’ve literally bought hundreds of used books through four brokers and never before had one arrive postage due. The book seller at first claimed a scam by Post offices East of the Mississippi(silly on the face of it), then sent me an email saying he’s glad I returned the book. He’d take it to his post office and see what’s going on. I checked his profile and found a number of recent complaints for the same thing, whatever that means. Maybe he’s innocent. We’ll see.
6: The Dead Man: Fire and Ice(ebook) – Jude Hardin: the latest installment in the ebook series.
how are those Pathfinder books? I need to try one of those.
I’ve been thinking the same thing about the Pathfinder books myself. I used to read a lot of the Forgotten Realms stuff back in the first couple years they started coming out, and they were pretty hit and miss. Some excellent ones for sure, but also some awful ones.
I wonder the same thing as Charles: how are the Pathfinder books? When I first subscribed to Planet Stories (since un-subscribed), they were just really ramping up the Pathfinder gaming stuff. I wasn’t even aware they’d branched out to books (I’m assuming they are e-books?).
That postage due thing sounds like a scam to me. I’d give the guy a bad grade on A-zon and try to find the book elsewhere. Personally, I read a few Queen books a couple of years ago, the Wrightville novels, and found the complicated, multi-layer endings to be contrived and credibility-stretching. I did like SPANISH CAPE and wouldn’t mind reading CHINESE ORANGE, though. So maybe it’s just that I like the older ones better. Honestly, I’d rather read Christie or Allingham.
Mine is up, BTW.
The Pathfinder books are mass market paperbacks, Richard. As for how they are, Don’t know yet. Never read any and thought I’d give them a try.
The early Queens are the best, at least in my mind. I’ve read all but a few and am working on getting those to be complete.