The Rap Sheet and blogger-author Patti Abbott (who created this series) will both take a couple of weeks off from posting reviews/endorsements of “forgotten books.” Like so many people at this time of year, we need a vacation. But we’ll be back with more nominations of crime novels too good to let disappear beginning on Friday, September 11.
In the meantime, today offers crops of both forgotten books and--in a twist on the theme--forgotten films. Among the books under consideration, you’ll find the pretty obscure Kill Me in Yoshiwara, by Earl Norman; the better-known Death of a Doormouse, by Reginald Hill; and of course Vicki Delany’s tribute to Modesty Blaise, by Peter O’Donnell, on this page. As far as the movies go, check out posts about The Housemaid, The Gift, Secuestro Express, Three Cases of Murder (plus nine more “forgotten” picks from Todd Mason), and the not-so-neglected In Like Flint.
Abbott has a full list of today’s participating blogs here, plus a few other film write-ups, including those about Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (adapted from the Walter Mosley novel) and Humphrey Bogart’s All Through the Night.
We’ll see you back for further celebrations of unjustly overlooked books in three weeks. You can count on it.
Friday, August 21, 2009
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