Crime Book Reviews Index

A complete archive of all the mystery, crime, and thrillers, plus adventure books and westerns, I’ve reviewed since early 2009, between both of my blogs, with links to each respective review. Organized by author and then by year. Apologies for the earlier reviews, where I had the asinine idea to cram three 3-paragraph reviews into each post. Some of the older reviews on Logic are getting updated and re-posted here.

To date, I have reviewed [129] mysteries and thrillers, [3] westerns, and [1] miscellanea.

ADVENTURE

Bishop, Farnham & Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist

• In the Grip of the Minotaur (1916)

MYSTERY, CRIME, and THRILLER

Includes mystery, crime, detective, sleaze, thriller, and spy fiction, along with their various subgenres, and other similar works.

Anthologies/Various Authors

• Capital Crimes (2015) – Martin Edwards, ed.
• Resorting to Murder (2015) – Martin Edwards, ed.

Atwood, Russell

• Losers Live Longer (2009) (Payton Sherwood 2)

Avallone, Michael

• The Tall Dolores (1953) (Ed Noon 1)

Beaumont, Charles

• The Intruder (1959)

Bell, Madison Smartt

• Straight Cut (1986)

Blauner, Peter

• Casino Moon (1994)

Bloch, Robert

• Spiderweb (1954)
• Shooting Star (1958)

Block, Lawrence

• A Diet of Treacle (1961)
• Killing Castro (1961)
• Lucky at Cards (1962)
• Borderline (2014/1958-63)
• Resume Speed (2016)

Brackett, Leigh

• No Good From a Corpse (1944)

Brewer, Gil

• A Killer is Loose (1954)
• The Red Scarf (1958)
• The Vengeful Virgin (1958)

Bude, John

• The Sussex Downs Murder (1936) (Inspector Meredith 2)
• Death on the Riviera (1952) (Inspector Meredith 9?)

Cain, James M.

• The Complete Crime Stories of James M. Cain (2015)

Cain, Paul

• Fast One (1931-32)

Chaze, Elliott

• Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)

Colby, Robert

• The Captain Must Die (1959)

Collins, Max Allan

• Bait Money (1973) (Nolan 1)
• Blood Money (1973) (Nolan 2)

Coxe, George Harmon

• Man on a Rope (1956)

Crofts, Freeman Wills

• Antidote to Venom (1938) (Inspector French 17)

Deaver, Jeffery

• The Bone Collector (1997) (Lincoln Rhyme 1)

Dodge, David

• Plunder of the Sun (1949)

du Maurier, Daphne

• Jamaica Inn (1936)

Farjeon, J. Jefferson

• The Z Murders (1932)
• Mystery in White (1937)

Farris, John

• Baby Moll (1958)

Fisher, Steve

• No House Limit (1963)

Goodis, David

• The Wounded and the Slain (1955)
• Night Squad (1961)

Haggard, William

• The High Wire (1963) (Colonel Charles Russel 5)

Halliday, Brett (alias)

• Dividend on Death (1939) (Mike Shayne 1)

Hamill, Pete

• The Guns of Heaven (1983)

Hamilton, Donald

• Night Walker (1954)

Hammett, Dashiell

• Arson Plus and Other Stories (2016) (Continental Op)

Highsmith, Patricia

• A Suspension of Mercy (1965)

Hill, Russell

• Robbie’s Wife (2007)

Himes, Chester

• A Rage in Harlem (1957) (Harlem Detectives 1)

Hughes, Dorothy B.

• Dread Journey (1945)
• Ride the Pink Horse (1946)

Hunt, E. Howard

• Bimini Rum (1949)
• House Dick (1961)
• Steve Bentley’s Calypso Caper (1961) (Steve Bentley 8)

Kakonis, Tom

• Michigan Roll (1988) (Waverly 1)
• Double Down (1991) (Waverly 2)

Kingston, Charles

• Murder in Piccadilly (1936)

Klavan, Andrew

• Mrs. White (1983)

Koenig, Joseph

• False Negative (2012)
• Really The Blues (2014)

Lange, John (alias of Michael Crichton)

• Odds On (1966)
• Zero Cool (1969)
• Grave Descend (1970)
• Binary (1972)

Lansdale, Joe R.

• Hap and Leonard (2016) (Hap and Leonard 9, 10, and assorted short fiction)
• Honky Tonk Samurai (2016) (Hap and Leonard 11)
• Coco Butternut (2017) (Hap and Leonard)
• Hap and Leonard – Blood and Lemonade (2017) (Hap and Leonard 13)

Marlowe, Dan J.

• The Name of the Game is Death (1962) (Earl Drake 1)
• One Endless Hour (1969) (Earl Drake 2)
• Flashpoint (1970) (Earl Drake 4)

Masterson, Whit (alias of Robert Wade & William Miller)

• Dead, She Was Beautiful (1955)
• Badge of Evil (1956)

Masur, Harold Q.

• Bury Me Deep (1948) (Scott Jordan 1)

Matheson, Richard

• Someone is Bleeding (1953)
• Fury on Sunday (1953)
• Ride the Nightmare (1959)

McBain, Ed (alias of Evan Hunter)

• Cop Hater (1956) (87th Precinct 1)
• The Mugger (1956) (87th Precinct 2)
• Killer’s Choice (1957) (87th Precinct 5)
• The Gutter and The Grave (1958)
• Even the Wicked (1958)
• Killer’s Wedge (1959) (87th Precinct 7)
• Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960) (87th Precinct 11)
• Doll (1965) (87th Precinct 20)
• Fuzz (1968) (87th Precinct 22)
• Jigsaw (1970) (87th Precinct 24)
• Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here (1971) (87th Precinct 25)

Miller, Wade (alias of Robert Wade & William Miller)

• Deadly Weapon (1946)
• Stolen Woman (1950)
• The Killer (1951)
• Branded Woman (1952)
• Kiss Her Goodbye (1956)
• Kitten With a Whip (1959)

Mykel, A.W.

• The Windchime Legacy (1980)

Nielsen, Helen

• Obit Delayed (1952)
• Detour (1953)

Ozaki, Milton K.

• Case of the Deadly Kiss (1957)
• Case of the Cop’s Wife (1958)

Packer, Vin (alias of Marijane Meaker)

• Something in the Shadows (1961)

Parker, Robert Bogardus

• Passport to Peril (1951)

Philips, Max

• Fade To Blonde (2004)

Piper, Evelyn

• Bunny Lake is Missing (1957)

Powell, Richard

• Shell Game (1950)
• A Shot in the Dark (1952)
• Say It With Bullets (1953)

Prather, Richard S.

• The Peddler (1952)
• Kill the Clown (1963) (Shell Scott 24)
• The Kubla Khan Caper (1966) (Shell Scott 32)

Rae, Hugh C.

• The Shooting Gallery (1972)

Rabe, Peter

• Stop This Man! (1955)
• The Box (1962)

Race, Philip

• Killer Take All (1959)

Rifkin, Shepard

• The Murderer Vine (1970)

Rogers, Joel Townsley

• The Red Right Hand (1945)

Sanderson, Jim

• El Camino del Rio (1999)

Schow, David

• Gun Work (2008)

Smith, Mark

• The Death of the Detective (1973)

Spillane, Mickey

• Dead Street (2007) with Max Allan Collins

Starr, Jason

• Fake I.D. (2000)

Stewart, Ramona

• Desert Town (1948)

Terrall, Robert

• Kill Now, Pay Later (1960) (Ben Gates 3)

Thompson, Jim

• Cropper’s Cabin (1952)
• The Grifters (1963)

Tinsley, Theodore

• Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter (anthology, 1932-40/2013)

Westlake, Donald

• 361 (1962)
• Somebody Owes Me Money (1969)

Weston, Caroyln

• Poor Poor Ophelia (1972) (Al Krug & Casey Kellogg 1)
• Susannah Screaming (1976) (Al Krug & Casey Kellogg 2)
• Rouse the Demon (1976) (Al Krug & Casey Kellogg 3)

Whittington, Harry

• You’ll Die Next! (1954)
• A Night For Screaming (1960)
• Don’t Speak To Strange Girls (1963)

Williams, Charles

• A Touch Of Death (1953)

Woolrich, Cornell

• Phantom Lady (1942)

Zelazny, Roger

• The Dead Man’s Brother (1971/2009)

WESTERNS

The American old west and rugged frontier.

DeRosso, H.A.

• .44 (1953)

Jessup, Richard

• Comanche Vengeance (1957)

Leonard, Elmore

• The Bounty Hunters (1953)