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1: His Name Was Death – Fredric Brown: He’d killed his wife the year before and gotten away with it. Each succeeding murder was easier than the last. One of the best crime novels of the 1950s.
2: Kalin – E. C. Tubb: book four of the Dumarest of Terra series. Kalin was her name and she was a sensitive, able to see into the future. Earl Dumarest saves her from a mob intent on murder and the pair leave the planet. An aborted takeover of the starship results in it’s destruction, Earl and Kalin barely escaping in a pod. from there they are rescued by a slave ship and he uses the last of his funds to book passage, escaping the mines on the planet of destination.
Of course they are broke with no way to get off the planet and, unknown to Dumarest, someone important is looking for the girl.
3: The Coming Event – E. C. Tubb: book 26 in the Dumarest series. Dumarest knows the Terridae known something about Earth, but they won’t tell him. Only that an event is near. A Cyclan ship, those human computers, is coming also.
4: Side Jobs – Jim Butcher: urban fantasy. A collection of shorter works featuring Harry Dresden, wizard/detective.
5: The Book of Murdock – Loren D. Estleman: the latest in the Page Murdock western series. Posing as a priest, Page Murdock is investigating a gang of ruthless bandits terrorizing the Texas panhandle. Owen, Texas seems to be their base of operations.
The Kalin cover is quite cool…
I had no idea Edwin Charles Tubb died last month…. perhaps you mentioned that in one of your posts about his books.
Bill Crider mentioned it, which reignited my interest in his books, I’ve been reading his Cap Kennedy series(as by Gregory Kern), but it had been a few years since I read a Dumarest.
Mine is up. You have some interesting things here, Randy. Are you planning on reading the E.C. Tubb right away, or just filling gaps in the SF collection?
I read some of them years back, Richard, and who knows where the copies went. I used to have a habit of lending books out to people and a lot of them never found their way home. Plus culling because of a lack of room sent some away.
At any rate, it had been so long since I’d read a Dumarest, i’m working my way through the series, picking the up here and there. I may not ever get them all.
What a great list of books! I really have to get “his name is death”; it’s on my I-must-read-before-I-die list!
The only one I have of these is Kalin.
I’ve heard the Butcher books are good. Happy reading! My mailbox is at The Crowded Leaf.