Tuesday, August 12, 2025
SleuthSayers: Analyzing What Motivates Your Character Can Make All The Difference
Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE MONKEY'S PAW (1948)
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Louisiana Longshot by Jana DeLeon
Monday, August 11, 2025
Gravetapping: Review: "Chain of Evidence" by Garry Disher
Mystery Fanfare: Why Do We Love The Unreliable Narrator? Guest Post by J.T. Ellison, author of LAST SEEN
Jerry's House of Everything: BITS & PIECES
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Close Call by Elise Hart Kipness
Sports reporter Kate Green is
back in her third adventure. Close Call (Thomas & Mercer, 19 August
2025) by Elise Hart Kipness takes Kate to the US Open Tennis Championships,
i.e., the US Open, where a major competition is brewing. Lucy Bosco, seasoned but
volatile tennis pro who has won almost every major award possible and who is
rumored to be considering retirement, is playing against Brynn Cole,
up-and-coming young tennis prodigy, in a match that is getting huge amounts of press
attention. Kate has scored exclusive interviews with both of the players,
despite the gatekeepers for each of them reluctant to grant access.
After Kate and Lucy visit Lucy’s
hometown where she first began training as a tennis pro and they meet her first
coach and some of her high school friends, Lucy disappears. Her coach receives
a note saying she is resigning from the championships for personal reasons. A
photo showing her battered face and chains around her wrists appears on Brynn’s
telephone, demanding $2 million dollars in ransom. The police scramble to find
her and to identify anyone who might want to hurt Lucy, while both families try
to raise the ransom and squelch rumors. Kate has some ideas of her own, based
on the time she spent with Lucy and the people they met, and shares them with
her law enforcement father.
Kidnapping someone important
just before a crucial competition is a great plot device. Harlan Coben used it
in Back Spin (1997), his fourth book about sports agent Myron Bolitar;
Kipness adds some original twists to the idea here. As in her earlier books,
Kipness’s experience as a sports reporter gives a degree of depth and
authenticity to the story that cannot be acquired any other way. Kipness has a
good feel for characterization; Bill the cameraman, Kate’s ever-present
companion, is a great working partner and a solid friend.
I hope that this series
continues; professional and college sports are rife with potential for criminal
activity, yet there are relatively few crime fiction books written about it. Harlan
Coben has resurrected his Myron Bolitar character after an eight-year hiatus,
and Robert B. Parker based several of his Spenser books in one sport or
another. Dick Francis of course looked at horse racing in detail. The closest I
have found to these books about a sports reporter by a sports reporter are the
Kate Henry series by Canadian sports writer and mystery author Alison Gordon,
whose journalist Kate Henry covered the Canadian Blue Jays.
Nicely plotted and briskly told. A good read.
·
Publisher:
Thomas & Mercer
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Publication
date: August
19, 2025
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Language:
English
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Print
length: 270 pages
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ISBN-10:
166252787X
· ISBN-13: 978-1662527876
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Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2025
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Ninefox Gambit: Yoon Ha Lee
Paula Messina Reviews: Case with No Conclusion: A Sgt. Beef Mystery by Leo Bruce
Please welcome back Paula Messina to the blog today…
Case
with No Conclusion
By
Paula Messina
Leo
Bruce loves to make fun of mystery writers. Case with No Conclusion
is no exception. It begins with Sgt. Beef complaining that his chronicler, Mr.
Townsend, is doing him a disservice. “You don’t seem to make much of my cases.
Not what some of them do for their detectives….Not like Miss Christie, or Mr.
Freeman Wills Croft. They do get taken notice of.”
In
turn, Townsend gripes about Beef, and because Townsend is telling the story, he
gets to gripe ad infinitum. It’s true Beef previously managed to solve two
cases, Townsend tells us, but that was dumb luck. Beef drinks too much beer.
He’s easily distracted and barely seems to work. Beef doesn’t speak the King’s
English, and he’s a few darts short of a game.
By
the end of the novel, Townsend blames Beef for destroying both their careers.
“It’s not only yourself you’ve ruined by failing in this case….Here I’ve been
working to build up a reputation for you, and the whole things smashed. If you
ever get another case there’s not a publisher in London would use the story of
it.”
This
is not a mutual admiration society akin to the relationship between Sherlock
Homes and John Watson. Townsend is never dazzled by Beef.
In
No Conclusions, Beef has retired from the police force and set himself up as a
private investigator. Much to Townsend’s great surprise. Beef gets his first
client when Peter Ferrers hires Beef to investigate the Sydenham Murder and
exonerate Peter’s brother Stewart, who is awaiting trial for the murder of Dr.
Benson.
Beef
admits that things look grim for Stewart. Benson was killed at The Cypresses,
Stewart’s home. Stewart’s fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon.
The house was locked tight, so no one else could have entered and killed the
doctor. It’s widely known the doctor’s wife and Stewart have been carrying on
an affair, and a heated argument between Stewart and Benson is well documented.
Despite
the deck being stacked again Stewart, Beef sets about investigating the murder.
Investigating seems like too highfalutin a word. Townsend has a point. Beef’s
methods are unusual. Make that odd. At times he barely seems to be doing
anything except to insist he knows what he’s doing. Beef can be belligerent
while interviewing. He follows leads down a rabbit’s hole, is easily
distracted, and refuses to explain himself. Still, Beef is one hundred percent
certain Stewart did not kill the doctor.
If
only Beef could prove it.
He
interviews Benson’s wife and learns that she was not having an affair with
Stewart. Peter admits he’s the adulterous guilty party. Besides, Benson knew
all about their romantic activities. Indeed, the Bensons planned to divorce.
Beef
and Townsend follow Stewart’s chauffeur and one of his maids to Europe, a trip
that appears to be a waste of time and Peter’s money. The butler commits
suicide. Was that a confession of guilt? Was the butler blackmailing Stewart?
Beef attempts to question a bum who might be a witness by plying him with beer.
Chalk that up to another Beef failure.
The
evidence he accumulates is rather thin. However, nothing can dissuade Beef from
the certainty that Stewart did not murder Dr. Benson. Beef fails to prove
Stewart’s innocence in time to stop the jury from convicting him of murder. The
next step for Stewart is the gallows.
It
comes down to the wire, and while Beef is still adamant he knows who the
murderer is, he has no proof that would prevent Stewart’s encounter with a
noose. It’s sayonara, Stewart.
This
shouldn’t be surprising in a book called Case with No Conclusion.
Bruce hammers home repeatedly that Beef has no evidence to exonerate Stewart.
Bruce even warns his readers before they crack open the book that there will be
no conclusions.
While
hanging is no laughing matter, Case with No Conclusion is
downright hysterically funny.
Stewart
might be a lost cause, but it is not wise to underestimate the intellectually
stunted Beef. He might swill a lot of beer, and his detecting skills might be
underwhelming, to say the least. But he knows what he’s doing. The ending is
both unexpected and immensely satisfying.
The back cover explains that this was the seventh Sgt. Beef mystery, but it was the third one Bruce wrote. That explains why Townsend repeatedly refers to two only previous successful cases. It’s a literary gift to know that Bruce didn’t stop writing at number three. There are nine novels in the Sgt. Beef mystery series.
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Paula Messina ©2025
Paula Messina lives within spitting distance of the Atlantic. She writes historical, contemporary, and humorous fiction.
Saturday, August 09, 2025
KRL Update 8/9/2025
Up on KRL this week a review and giveaway of a signed copy of "A Body at the Book Fair" by Ellie Alexander https://kingsriverlife.com/08/09/a-body-at-the-book-fair-by-ellie-alexander/
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Laughing Buddha Murders (1944) by Richard Foster
SleuthSayers: Irwin Allen's Second Act: The Master of Disaster
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Fifty Places to Travel Solo: Travel Experts Share the World’s Greatest Solo Destinations by Chris Santella
Scott's Take: Laura Kinney: Wolverine Vol. 1 - One-Mutant Army by Erica Schultz (Author), Giada Belviso (Illustrator), and Elena Casagrande (Cover Art)
Laura Kinney: Wolverine Vol. 1 -
One-Mutant Army
by Erica Schultz (Author), Giada Belviso (Illustrator), and Elena Casagrande
(Cover Art) comes out August 12, 2025. This action packed first volume collects
the first five issues which end on a cliff hanger to set up the second volume.
This series has Wolverine’s daughter
going on violent adventures to save various mutants after the fall of Krakoa.
People are taking advantage of the fall of Krakoa to go after people who are
powerful, but inexperienced in using their powers. In the first issue she boldly
rides solo, but the next two she teams up with Elektra (who now shares the
title of Daredevil with Matt) and Bucky (who used to be called the Winter
Soldier, but now goes by The Revolution). They are simple action stories with
plenty of violence and character musings. Luke Cage has an extended part in
this book, but I did not like his part and did not like him in this.
Laura is not in a good place after
Krakoa’s fall and blames herself partially. So, she is finding bad people to
hurt as a distraction. The art is good and there is plenty of violence. I read
the first five issues through the Marvel Unlimited App. The second volume is
currently untitled and does not have a release date.
The numbering will also be confusing
since they are relaunching a lot of the current books because of the Age
of Revelation (a time skip ten years in the future dystopia event that
will interrupt all X-Men titles). I look forward to reading more
of this series with whatever format they choose to go with in the future.
As noted, my reading copy came in eBook
format through the Marvel
Unlimited App.
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Scott A. Tipple ©2025
Friday, August 08, 2025
Jerry's House of Everything: FORGOTTEN BOOK: NEXT
FFB Review: Kill Devil Falls: A Novel Of Suspense by Brian Klingborg
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For U. S. Marshal Helen Morrissey, it was supposed
to be a fairly routine pickup and transfer of a prisoner from jail in the
Sierra Nevadas. But, the frigid weather has not helped matters and the locals
could not get the prisoner, Rita Crawford, where she was supposed to be for
pickup. Instead, per her boss at the
Sacramento office and a man who is probably paying her back for refusing to go
out with him and more, the locals can’t do it so Morrissey has to go to Kill
Devil Falls where Rita Crawford was arrested and pick her up there.
Rita and her still missing fugitive partner, Lee
Larimer, were notorious in recent weeks as they went about a robbery spree. A
spree that netted them quite a lot of money before the inevitable happened as
they were not the smartest criminals ever. Especially Lee. The cops got on
their trail and were closing in when Rita did the smart thing and left her
idiot partner behind. Then she made a dumb move and got caught in Kill Devil
Falls and is sitting in the local lockup awaiting pickup and transport.
Now, with Rita in Kill Devil Falls, a place that
does not exist on Google, instead of Donnersville where she was supposed to be,
Marshal Morrissey has a bit more diving to do on what has already been a nasty
day. A day that gets worse on the way as she suffers a tire blowout that was
nearly catastrophic. Lucky to have survived the trip to Kill Devil Falls, all
Morrissey wants to do is do the paperwork and get her and her prisoner out on
the road to Sacramento as fast as possible.
It soon becomes very clear that they are going
nowhere. Instead of a routine mission, Marshal Morrissey finds herself in a
decaying, and in more than one way, and deadly town. A town that is the scene
of a succession of events and deaths that become the basis for what really is
an open air locked room mystery.
Kill Devil Falls: A Novel Of Suspense by Brian
Klingborg was the subject of a recent review by author Kaye George on my blog.
Her review caused me to look for the book. Unfortunately, the book was not
carried in the Dallas Library system. It was available in Houston so I paid the
$3.00 fee and requested the read through the Interlibrary Loan System. As it
happened, it was available in large print which was even better for me.
Kill Devil Falls: A Novel of Suspense was well worth
the time, money, and effort. An intense read full of misdirection and action,
the story unravels at a rapid clip from start to finish. Kill Devil Falls: A
Novel of Suspense is mighty good and well worth your time.
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My thanks to the good folks of the Harris County
Public Library down in Houston, Texas as well as the good people of the Dallas
Library System for working their magic and making this read available to me. It
was and is very much appreciated.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018,2025
Thursday, August 07, 2025
Wednesday, August 06, 2025
SleuthSayers: Who Ever Imagined?
Mystery Fanfare: LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD (LAMMYS): Best LGBTQ+ in Mystery
Little Big Crimes: Hours on the Phone, by Greg Fallis
Short Story Wednesday Review: Top Suspense: Favorite Kills
The anthology Top Suspense: Favorite Kills
features 12 very strong suspense tales. Assembled and published in 2011 by Top
Suspense Group the short stories are ones that were previously published in
various places. Due to their length as short stories one can’t go into too much
detail without giving away spoilers, but much is at work in each one of them.
They all are good ones and a couple are downright creepy bordering on the
horrific.
The award winning story, “Archie’s Been Framed” by
Dave Zeltsman gets things going. Julius has plenty of money in the bank and can
enjoy the finer things in life for a while. He has no reason to work until
Archie is framed for the murder of 27
year old Denise Penny. If the nature of Archie’s existence were revealed that
is not an option. Julius does not have a
choice – he has to investigate and clear Archie.
Bordering on the horrific in this reader’s opinion
is the next story by Harry Shannon titled “Night Nurse” by Harry Shannon. Bud
is in the hospital and suffering big time. The only one who seems to have any
compassion is his ongoing medical drama is his night nurse.
Several of the Solomon and Lord series by Paul
Levine are on my e-book tbr pile. In this anthology, Solomon and Lord appear in
“Solomon and Lord Drop Anchor.” Steve Solomon plans to go out to sea on a boat
with Manuel Cruz ostensibly to go fishing. The same Miguel Cruz they are about
to sue after he embezzled three million from a local car dealership nearly
making the elderly owner bankrupt. Victoria Lord knows her law partner isn’t
telling her everything and she intends to attend the deep sea business meeting
as well to protect her partner and their interests.
The Korean women that perform the massages at the
spa in Korea Town seem to be uniform in appearance and anonymity. Ann’s
masseuse goes by the name “Number 19” and is supposed to get a $20 tip. But,
will she actually get that money and more is questioned in “Number 19” by Naomi
Hirahara.
The two elderly women live in Davis, Florida when
they can garden a bit, feed some cats, and once a month go to the beach for a
swim. They also smoke pot a bit and fantasize about trip to Hawaii. Then, a homeless guy by the name of Henry
becomes part of their lives in “Sweet Dreams” by Vicki Hendricks and things
evolve from the normal routine.
Larry and Marge Falls took the trip to Vegas in
“House Rules” because Marge desperately wanted to do something new and
different. But the trip is not going well and the side trip to Red Rock Canyon
hasn’t helped. It’s time for change.
Doing the crime is one thing. Making sure the cover
up stays intact is another. That is the premise behind “Angie” by Ed. Gorman.
One seriously creepy story with lots at stake for all involved.
For Travis Runnels every single day is a knife
fight. Being in jail is just an occupational hazard for him. It is a public
defender like Alex Stone who Travis is going to have to rely on to get him out
of a death penalty murder case. The fact that she is a Jew and lesbian doesn't
impress him any more than the fact he is an African-American impresses her in
“Knife Fight: An Alex Stone Short Story” by Joel Goldman.
If you remember or ever saw “Dragnet” starting Jack
Webb you will get a kick out of this one titled “Jack Webb’s Star” by Lee
Goldberg. If you haven’t, go check out
at least a couple of episodes first before you read this dark and funny twisted
tale. You need the frame of reference.
Holly has had a rough night. At least the kids are
okay. But, she really needs to get out of the emergency room in “Restraint” by
Stephen Gallagher. She also needs to get her car from the bottom of the
embankment before the cops start poking around it too much. This is another
dark tale, but nothing funny is at work here.
Texas author Bill Crider is up next with his tale
“Top Of The World.” Thanks to Sam Cobb he met Vicky. It might have been better
for everyone if they had never crossed paths. She is dangerous and just might
get him killed. Or kill him herself.
The final tale is “A Matter Of Principal: a Quarry
Story” by Max Allan Collins. Quarry knows he recognizes the guy in the
convenience store in the middle of the night. It has been ten years since they
last ran into each other and though the guy does not recognize him, Quarry
knows him and knows something is up. The only option is to tail him and get
some answers and maybe just a little payback.
12 short stories bios of the author involved bring
the read to a close.
Published in 2011 by Top Suspense Group, the 12
tales here are all good ones. These are not tales that feature happy people
doing happy things. No, the suspense tales here at times push the edge into
horror as the characters live difficult lives often on the edges of society.
One does what one has to do to survive and that desperation is always at work
in Top Suspense: Favorite Kills.
The book is currently listed, but unavailable on Amazon.
According to Amazon I picked this up on March 8, 2014. I have no idea now if I bought it by way of funds in my Amazon Associate account, because it was a free read on that date, or because it was given to me. I had forgotten I even had it until Barry Ergang, who was reading it awhile back, mentioned it to me and I hunted for it.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2016, 2025
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
Mystery Fanfare: Call for Articles: Mystery Readers Journal: Northern California issue (41:3)
Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: THE RESTLESS GUN: DUEL AT LOCKWOOD (SEPTEMBER 23, 1957)
Beneath the Stains of Time: Men for Pieces (1949) by Brian Flynn
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalauddin
Gravetapping: Review: "Branded" by Ed Gorman
Publication Day Review: Throwing Shadows: A Sheriff Hank Worth Mystery by Claire Booth
Throwing Shadows:
A Sheriff Hank Worth Mystery by Claire Booth
is
the latest read in a great series that began with The
Branson Beauty. This is a series that must be read in order as
events happen, create consequential ripple effects just like in real life, and
people change. That is especially true in this case as this read is set just a
few weeks after the events of Home
Fires. Not only is the community dealing with the aftermath, Sheriff
Hank Worth and his family are dealing with the scorched earth aftermath of a devastating
family secret that burned through them all.
In the here and now, Sheriff Hank Worth
is dealing with a surge in catalytic converter thefts across Branson County,
Missouri. The devices are getting stolen in large numbers off the cars in the local
car lots. It is happening in places that have poor or nonexistent security. Nobody
has an idea they have been hit until a car is started for a potential customer
and the loud racket makes it clear the theft has happened.
At the same time, Chief Deputy Sheila
Turley is coping with her slowly healing injuries as best as she can as she
faces the upcoming trail of her attacker. The same grit and determination that
got her through the attack is getting her through each day, a painful minute at
a time, now. The odds of getting a fair trial are considerably stacked against
her, but Malcolm Oberholz assures her they can win the case.
Then a man in very bad shape stumbles
out of the thick woods and everything else, personal, and professional, takes a
back seat. He claims to have been lost in the woods the last two or three days.
Not only was he not prepared to be wandering around in the woods, he was not
prepared to find a body. He did. Now the good Sheriff and others on his team
have to figure out where the lost man has been and if there really is a body in
those woods so lovely, dark, and deep.
After some effort a body is found. It isn’t
the first time blood has been shed in those same woods. Those woods have a
bloody, and often violent, history that goes back decades and rumors of stolen
treasure. There is a reason why the area is known to the natives as the “Murder
Rocks.” That history inspired a podcast. That, in turn, brought out a bunch of
people with zero wilderness skills to hunt loot from long ago. It also seems to
have also brought out at least one killer who is not through yet.
Throwing Shadows: A Sheriff Hank
Worth Mystery
by Claire Booth is another very good read. Complicated as these books always
are, it also features a lot of interesting local history for us armchair
travelers. The result is another really good read that ends all too soon and
leaves the reader wanting more.
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I picked this up through NetGalley by
way of the publisher, Severn House, which has me on their preapproved reviewer list.
A fact I am very grateful for as the ability to instantly download is a
wonderful thing. There was no expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2025
Monday, August 04, 2025
Mystery Fanfare: The Thursday Murder Club: Coming to Netflix
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Historical novelist Laura
Shepherd-Robinson wanders into thriller territory with her newest book The
Art of a Lie, to be released on 5 August 2025 by Atria Books. Newly widowed
Hannah Cole is beset from all sides: her Piccadilly confectionery business Punchbowl
and Pineapple is foundering because women in business are socially unacceptable,
her suppliers are overcharging her, the shop assistants are acting up. Along
comes William Deveraux, a stranger to Hannah but who says he was friends with her
late husband Jonas Cole and wants to be of assistance to his widow.
Hannah is grateful for any
help he offers. When William suggests that an Italian delicacy called iced
cream would draw crowds to her shop and revitalize its reputation, she
immediately refines the old recipe he found and advertises the new treat, which
is a rousing success.
Hannah’s cousin, the executor
of Cole’s estate, finds a large sum of money in Cole’s bank accounts that
cannot be explained. Sir Henry Fielding, author turned magistrate, is trying
hard to promote the desirability of a publicly funded police force, which so
far no one wants. Fielding attaches the estate while he investigates Cole’s
business dealings more thoroughly, freezing probate and settlement. If the
money could be proven to be illicitly acquired, then Fielding can seize it to
fund his police force. Cole was found in the river, an apparent victim of a
street robbery, but Fielding learns enough about his shady business dealings to
suspect deliberate murder and decides to look more closely, asking questions of
the late Cole’s associates and relatives, including Hannah, that they would
rather not answer.
In the meantime Deveraux is
growing particular in his attentions to Hannah, despite her mourning status,
causing considerable gossip. She is busy experimenting with new flavors of iced
cream while ordering more cream and ice every day; she cannot keep the frozen
dessert in stock and the elite of the ton are dashing to her store.
Set in 1749 during the reign
of George II, readers familiar with the St. Cyr Regency mysteries written by C.
S. Harris which begin in 1811 will still recognize many of the people, places,
and conventions. Like Harris, Shepherd-Robinson’s deep scholarly research is
dauntingly impressive but never interferes with the unfolding of the story. The
annotated bibliography at the end offers more sources for the academically minded
to pursue.
Hannah is a force of nature in
a time when women were not allowed to be anything except servants, figuratively
and literally. Her strength of character and raw intelligence keep her one step
ahead of everyone else and allows her to deceive her ill-wishers and surprise
the reader again and again.
A fascinating read. It will be
on my best of 2025 list.
Starred review from Library
Journal.
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Publisher:
Atria Books
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Publication
date: August 5, 2025
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Language:
English
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Print
length: 304 pages
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ISBN-10:
1668083094
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ISBN-13:
978-1668083093
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Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2025
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.
Sunday, August 03, 2025
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog: JULY NEWS FROM THE SHORT MYSTERY FICTION SOCIETY
Saturday, August 02, 2025
Mystery Fanfare: MALTESE FALCON AWARD (Japan) 2025
SleuthSayers: Funny Business
Beneath the Stains of Time: Job Hunting: "The Man Who Talked with Spirits" (1943) by Herbert Brean
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Six Degrees of Separation: From The Safekeep to Tales of the South Pacific
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Blue Ridge Fire Towers by Robert Sorrell
Scott's Take: Batman/Superman: World's Finest Vol. 7: Total Eclipso by Mark Waid, Adrián Gutiérrez (Illustrator), and Fran Galán (Artist)
Batman/Superman: World's Finest Vol. 7:
Total Eclipso by Mark Waid, Adrián Gutiérrez (Illustrator),
and Fran Galán (Artist) comes out August 5th. I read this early through
the DC Infinite App. This volume collects Superman/Batman: World’s Finest
#31-34 and Green Lantern/Green Arrow: World’s Finest Special #1.
All these stories, except for the last one, feature Superman (Clark), Batman,
and Robin (Dick). All volumes are standalone and can be read in any order. They
are all set in the past of the DC Universe.
In the main arc, Eclipso has taken over the Earth
and infected Batman, Superman, and most of the League, and has made them evil,
among other things. Luckly for Earth, Robin is still uninfected and he teams up
with the uninfected members Justice Society. This means it is it up to the
legendary members of the old guard and the kid to defeat Eclipso and his new
Minions as darkness engulfs the planet.
The last three issues are totally different.
In the first of the last three, Krypto recruits
Batgirl, Ace (the Bat-hound), and Jimmy Olsen to rescue the Superman, Batman,
and Robin.
The second issue is Batman, Superman, Robin teaming
up with Aquaman to stop a plague in the ocean. Luckly, they have a friend that
can help. Lori the mermaid (Superman’s girlfriend and that means, yes, Superman
hooked up with a mermaid) is attempting to keep the peace between rival
factions as the plague ravages the underwater cities.
In the last issue, Green Arrow and Green Lantern
team up against Deathstroke as the assassin attacks them during a road trip
across the country. Long ago those two had a series where they did a road trip
across America and this is set during that trip.
Featuring plenty of action, fun art, and spectacle,
this is a light hearted romp through the DC Universe. These were fun reads. I
think the one with Krypto was my favorite, but all of them were excellent.
This series will crossover with the Justice
League Unlimited series which will be collected in the trade, We
Are Yesterday. I have only read the first two issues of Justice
League Unlimited by I have enjoyed what I have read. Bring on the time
travel shenanigans.
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As noted, my reading was done through the DC Infinite App.
Scott A. Tipple ©2025
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