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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Badge of Evil – Whit Masterson

2013-02-27

Plucky District Attorney sent to investigate a strange murder ends up clearing that case—and stumbling upon a larger web of vigilante cops making their hunches into justice.

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Fury on Sunday – Richard Matheson

2013-02-23

Madman pianist Vince escapes mental hospital, then takes former manager hostage to get back at an old friend for “stealing” his dream girl away. An early thriller by the master Matheson.

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One Endless Hour – Dan Marlowe

2013-02-19

Battered, burned, and captured, the man who will call himself Earl Drake is looking for an escape route out of a hospital ward. That escape comes in the form of a Pakistani plastic surgeon.

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The Name of the Game is Death – Dan Marlowe

2013-02-15

After his partner in crime goes missing, bank robber “Chet Anderson” sets out to track down his share of the loot… and enact brutal revenge against whoever it was who dealt with his partner.

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In The Grip of the Minotaur – Farnham Bishop & Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

2013-02-12

Entertaining romp where feisty Norse merchant-prince Ragnarr takes on the empire of Crete, because a Cretan prince stole his girlfriend. Lots of sword-battles and sea-fights.

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Midsummer Century – James Blish

2013-02-05

1970s-era scientist is thrust forward in time into the mind of a organic computer, living a verdant future where primitive humans are losing ground to their evolutionary adversaries—the Birds.

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Someone is Bleeding – Richard Matheson

2013-02-02

Young author is caught in a love triangle with a beautiful, frightened woman-child and his old college rival, a shady lawyer with mob connections. One of those two is a killer. But which one?

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