April 2015 Book Round-Up

89: TH: A Dubious Race: The Phoenician Stones (A Colton Banyon Mystery Book 14)(ebook) – Gerald J. Kubicki & Kristopher Kubicki Nino

90: CH: TIGERS: Fun Facts and Amazing Photos of Animals in Nature (Amazing Animal Kingdom Book 11)(ebook) – Emma Child

91: MY: Tender is LeVine (Jack LeVine Mysteries) – Andrew Bergman

92: TH: Joe Hunter: Instant Justice: and other action-packed tales(ebook) – Matt Hilton

93: WE: Gunfire Ridge(Bodie Kendrick-Bounty Hunter Book 4)(Ebook) = Wayne D. Dundee

94: SF: Finches of Mars – Brian W. Aldiss

95: MY: Dry Bones: A Walt Longmire Mystery – Craig Johnson

96: CH: Taya’s Enchanted Tutu: The Taming of the Black Hearts(ebook) – Doreen Linda Funk

97: CH: Kids:Whats Book – 4: Kids book,Moral stories,Bedtime Stories,Children’s Books, Early Reader(ebook) – Tanveer Ahmed

98: HR: Children of The Mark(ebook) – Michael W. Garza

99: TH: Last Train To Casablanca(ebook) – Shayne Youngblood

100: CH: Jack’s Wagers (A Jack O’ Lantern Tale)(ebook) – Wirton Arvel

101: HR: Headstone Sonata: Volume 1(ebook) – Jorge Bocanegra

102: MY: See Also Murder: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery – Larry D. Sweazy

103: BI: Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in The Alice Cooper Group – Dennis Dunaway and Curtis Hodenfield

104: CR: Frank Incensed – A Frank Rozzani Detective Novel (Book 3)(ebook) – Don Massenzio

105: TH: Tales of Tinfoil: Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy(ebook) – edited by David Gatewood

106: TH: A Dubious Mission: The Aryan Tablet (Colton Banyon Mysteries Book 1)(ebook) – Gerald J. Kubicki

107: TH: Touchfeather – Jimmy Sangster

108: TH: Hellbound(ebook) – Chester D. Campbell

109: WE: Bounty For A Lawman (Samaria, Kansas Book 1)(ebook) – David Hardy

110: WE: War on Whiskey Row (Samaria, Kansas Book 2)(ebook) – David Hardy

111: WE: Trail of the Cyclone (Samaria, Kansas Book 3)(ebook) – David Hardy

112: AD: Armstrong Dent – Season One: Ten Stories – One Team (A Classified Armstrong Dent Tale)(ebook) – Aeyess

113: TH: Independence Day – Ben Coes

114: HR: Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back(ebook) – Joe R. Lansdale

115: TH: Executive(ebook) – Leslie Wolfe

116: CH: Oliver & Jumpy, Stories 1-3(ebook) – Werner Stejskal

117: SP: Touchfeather, Too – Jimmy Sangster

118: WE: Sidewinders: Bleeding Texas – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone

119: Lucy’s Christmas Miracle(ebook) – Don Massenzio

120: TH: Jack in the Green (The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series Book 5)(ebook) – Diane Capri

121: HR: Because We Told Her To(ebook) – Sal Conte

122: NF: The Crime of Our Lives(ebook) – Lawrence Block

123: WE: Shawn O’Brien Town Tamer # 1 – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone

124: WE: MacCallister: Kill Crazy (MacCallister The Eagles Legacy) – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone

125: WE: The Outlaw Ranger(ebook) – James Reasoner

126: TH: The Hoard(ebook) – Neil Grimmett

127: PO: All Those Hungry Mouths(ebook) – Keith Rawson

128: WE: MacCallister Kingdom Come (Maccallister: the Eagles Legacy) – William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone

129: AD: The Blaster: The Girl With The Dynamite Bangs – Lou Cameron

April 2015 Movie Round-Up

Three Men From Texas(1940)

Gentle Annie(1944)

Stop The Slayings(1965)

The Dirty Fifteen(1967)

I Want Him Dead(1968)

One After The Other(1968)

Radio Play: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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Harlan Ellison

New In The House

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1: No Dogs In Philly(review copy) – Andy Futuro: Philadelphia. Elzi on every corner, cops just itching to crack a skull, and the Gaespora lordin’ it up in their high towers while the rest of the filth dribbled down the sewer. Saru had a way out. All she had to do was find the girl, one skinny stray with blue, blue eyes-bluer than anyone had ever seen-and ten million fat bucks were hers. Except someone was killing blue-eyed girls, and they were A-list, major-league, cold-sweat effective. And something about the end of all existence if she failed.

and the ebooks:

2: Murder By Bequest(review copy) – John Spencer Pantiss: With the story opening on the scene of a “family squabble” between the two main (series) characters, Sherrod Reynard Colsne (pronounced kōn, with silent “l” and “s”) and Montague Boyd “Monty” Weston, the latter makes casual mention of a recent and bizarre murder, in an attempt to arouse his employer and friend to action. Action in this sense means business, the work of a professional detective.

3: Everville: The Fall of Brackenbone(review copy) – Roy Huff: Two very different worlds, Easton Falls University and the magical realm of Everville are in dire need of a hero. Owen Sage embarks on an epic journey of monumental proportions to save these worlds all while fighting to keep the world within himself intact. This quest is not for the faint of heart nor is it for the weak of mind—only the bravest will succeed. Discovering the well-kept secret of The Fourth Pillar of Truth is only part of the feat. Owen will have to outwit the ever-powerful villain Governor Jahal and overcome countless other challenges along the way. Amongst all of the dragons, giants and grand chaos, will Owen’s acquired skills and wisdom be enough to save both worlds or will peril be the ultimate fate of all?

4: Spettra(review copy) – Adam Gainer: ide the walls Whitewall Psychiatric Institute, strange things have been happening. Perfectly healthy doctors are dropping dead like flies, and a certain psychiatrist begins to hear voices. All of them are crying for help. Tara, a woman crippled by a motor vehicle accident the year before, begins to see beyond the physical world she that has now been banned from. She begins to see a wonderful place, where the horizon is breathtaking, and it is where Tara can finally walk and speak again.

5: Deadly Flare-Up – Linda Pendleton: Sex, drugs and missing money … not your ordinary trip to the dentist! An ex-con, a stripper, a psychologist and a dentist, all have one thing in common ─ former Southern California D.A., turned private investigator, Richard McCord. Surviving numerous challenges over the years, both personally and professionally, Richard McCord discovers he’s again facing a predicament. What appeared to be a simple case quickly explodes into multiple murders, a Mexican drug cartel connection, temptation from a vivacious exotic dancer, and maybe even a serious relationship with a beautiful therapist.

6: Don’t Dare A Dame – M. Ruth Meyers: Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan risks losing her P.I. license — and her life — when two spinsters hire her to learn the fate of their father, who vanished twenty-six years earlier. She’s barely started when her main suspect commits suicide and Maggie is summoned before the powerful chief of police. A stroke of his pen will revoke her license, and he warns her he’s getting complaints about her from City Hall.

Sales Pitch: Philip K. Dick Radio Play

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One After The Other(Uno Dopo L’Altro)1968

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Jose Manuel Martin, Richard Harrison

ONE AFTER ANOTHER has a plot built around double crosses. many of them.

Richard Harrison is Stan, the only name we ever have for him. He comes into town looking for Bill Ross, only to learn he as killed in a bank robbery.

The robbery is at the beginning of the film. Colonel Jefferson(José Bódalo) owns the bank. He’s accosted outside of town by a band of Mexicans led by Espartero(José Manuel Martín) who offers him a deal Jefferson can’t refuse. Espartero holds a paper proving the Colonel was a traitor during the war. They rob the bank, loaded with payrolls for area ranches and mines, to get money to save his peoples’ farms, Jefferson gets his money back from the insurance, plus the proof. Everybody’s happy.

The robbery comes off, but it’s a set-up. Nine men disguised as Mexicans hit it, and when Stan Ross grabs a rifle and catches the robbers unawares, Jefferson offers to hold the weapon while Stan disarms them, only to shoot his clerk in the back. The robbers murder all the customers then. Jefferson had hired them to pretend to be Mexican, ponchos and big slouchy sombreros, and steal the gold. It’s hid in a cave until the furor dies down and the men discard their disguises and filter back into town.

At the bank, Espatero had his nephew working as a sweeper. Miguel(Hugo Blanco) recognizes the double cross and goes after Jefferson. He gets a knife in him, but Jefferson shoots him, a head wound that scrambles his brain.

The bespectacled Stan hires on to find Miguel, who’d escaped, for ten grand. At their camp, he makes a deal with Espartero, who denies any involvement. Stan was already suspicious.

Several more double crosses follow and Stan swears to hunt down and kill Jefferson and his nine co-cospirators.

One After the other.

He Starts the parade off with the undertaker(Eugenio Galadini, billed as Eugenio Galatini) bringing a coffin into the saloon and presenting it to his first target. Each succeeding takedown, he leaves enough for a coffin to be made.

A pretty decent little western with two more double crosses in the final few minutes. The director was Nick Nostro(billed as as Nick Howard) who also had a hand in the script, along with eight others.

FFB: Touchfeather, Too – Jimmy Sangster

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Forgotten Books, Jimmy Sangster

Last week, I covered TOUCHFEATHER, the first book. This week, I’m posting on the second, and only other as far as I know, Katy Touchfeather adventure.

Katy Touchfeather is back in action. Based in London, she works for a man named Blaser. Fluent in six languages, passable in a few more, her cover job is as an airline stewardess. That had been her job before she was recruited as part of an investigation in her husband’s death. Ruled accidental, it had in fact been murder and Katy had helped bring down the killers.

Trained as an agent, she can kill with just her hands in six different methods. But mosy often she uses her feminine side to complete her assignments.

This time around, she’s on the trail of illegal gold. Gold in the world is heavily monitored as to much on the market can bring the price down. Someone is getting gold from unknown mines and introducing it in market.

A handsome young bullfighter smuggling some in is one target. Another is a rich Greek named Constantin Galipolodopolo that may be the head man.

Katy survives murder attempts, several kidnappings, and her irascible boss as she investigates.

Today’s Humor: Rock ‘N’ Roll Edition

Ace of Spades: Because I Like Motorhead

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Today’s Humor: Late Winter Variety