For Your Reading Pleasure

This is Friday. Ergo, the crime-fiction blogosphere is crowded with recommendations of “forgotten books.” Included among today’s offerings are: Testkill, by Ted Dexter and Clifford Makins; The Child Killer, by Edson T. Hamill; Pick-Up, by Charles Willeford; From Droon with Death, by Ruth Rendell; The Way Some People Die, by Ross Macdonald; and the short-story collection Blood Runs Cold, by Robert Bloch. Organizer Patti Abbott hosts several more reading suggestions in her own blog (including Ed Gorman’s tout of the “magazine novel” Corkscrew, by Dashiell Hammett), plus a complete rundown of this week’s series participants. Enjoy, as always.