Worth a Second Look

In addition to Gary Phillips’ write-up about Daddy Cool, other “forgotten books” being heralded around the crime-fiction blogosphere today include: Nothing Burns in Hell, by Philip José Farmer; The Fourth Dimension Is Death, by Samuel Holt (Donald E. Westlake); Death Wears a White Gardenia, by Zelda Popkin; Close Up, by Len Deighton; The Canvas Coffin, by William Campbell Gault; Safe Harbor, by Eugene Izzi; The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene; Suckers, by Anne Billson; and Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories. In addition, Patti Abbott features a couple of other lesser-known works in her blog, along with a complete list of today’s participating book pickers.