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I'll be posting short reviews of each book I read.

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The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle

Like A Study In Scarlet, The Valley of Fear is pretty much two books in one--the first half is Holmes solving a complex murder case.

Over My Dead Body, by Rex Stout

A Nero Wolfe novel

A Quote from Sherlock Holmes

Holmes laughed.

Turok, Son of Stone # 22 (Dell Comics)

Cover dated Dec. 1960-Feb. 1961

Closing down my OTHER blog

I’ve kept a blog called “Comics, Old-Time Radio and Other Cool Stuff” since 2007.

The Sea Guerrillas, by Dean W. Ballenger

An entertaining over-the-top war story.

Childhood Impressions Revisted

An Account of my first time reading Where Eagles Dare

The Case of the Screaming Woman, by Erle Stanley Gardner

Perry Mason has to deal with a client who is lying to him; the client’s wife who is telling different lies; and a shifty criminal attorney who tries his hand at blackmail.

Selections from my TBR shelves

Genius Unlimited, by John T. Phillifent

Two agents from Interstellar Security, Rex Sixx and Roger Lowry, are hired to escort a lady cop while she investigates a crime wave on another planet.

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War, by Fred Anderson

A very well-written history of this little known war, making a case that it was a major factor in setting up social conditions for the eventual American Revolution and for U.S.

The Shadow: The Green Box, by Walter Gibson

writing as Maxwell Grant

Books My Wife is Reading

Hellbent for Glory, by William Chamberlain

formerly titled "Combat Stories of World War 2 and Korea"

The Flying Eyes, by J. Hunter Holly

A few months ago, I read a Man from U.N.C.L.E.

He Who Hesitates, by Ed McBain

An 87th Precinct Novel