Rise of the Unread

After you’ve had a chance to read Libby Fischer Hellmann’s recollections of The Staked Goat, by Jeremiah Healy, check out some of the other “forgotten books” being recommended around the Web today. Among the crime- and thriller-fiction titles: Dead at the Take-off, by Lester Dent; Danger Is My Line, by Stephen Marlowe; Decoys, by Richard Hoyt; The Girl on the Best Seller List, by Vin Packer; Victims, by B.M. Gill; The Velvet Touch, by Edward D. Hoch; The Schoolgirl Murder Case, by Colin Wilson; The Devil Rides Out, by Dennis Wheatley; The Curious Facts of My Execution, by Donald E. Westlake; A Garden of Vipers, by Jack Kerley; A Tasty Way to Die, by Janet Laurence; Box Nine, by Jack O’Connell; and the Jane Bond adventures by Mabel Maney.

Organizer Patti Abbott offers a full rundown of today’s participating writers in her own blog, plus several others lesser-known books worthy of reconsideration.