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WHAT I'VE BEEN READING

From summer 2015

Fiction

James Ellroy
Brown's Requiem
Clandestine
Blood on the Moon
Because the Night
Suicide Hill
Killer on the Road
The Black Dahlia
The Big Nowhere
L.A. Confidential
White Jazz
American Tabloid
The Cold Six Thousand
Blood's a Rover
Perfidia
​This Storm
Widespread Panic
(non-fiction)
My Dark Places
The Hilliker Curse

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest
The Dain Curse
The Maltese Falcon
The Glass Key
The Thin Man
​After the Thin Man (film treatment)
Another Thin Man (film treatment)
(Short stories)
The Big Knockover collection
The Continental Op

Mickey Spillane
I, the Jury
My Gun is Quick
Vengeance is Mine
One Lonely Night
​The Big Kill
​The Long Wait
Kiss Me, Deadly
The Girl Hunters
The Snake
The Twisted Thing
​A Bullet for Satisfaction
The Last Stand

Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
Farewell, My Lovely
The High Window
​The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister
The Long Goodbye
Playback
(Short stories)
The Simple Art of Murder (essay & short stories)
Killer in the Rain (collection)

Benjamin Black
The Black-Eyed Blonde

Nic Pizzolatto
Galveston

Ed McBain
Cut Me In
Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast
Three Blind Mice
​Now Die In It (Novelette)

Charles Ardai
The Nice Guys (Movie novelisation)
Fifty-to-One

Ross Macdonald
The Chill
​The Way Some People Die
The Barbarous Coast
​The Doomsters
​The Galton Case
​The Drowning Pool
Black Money
​The Instant Enemy
​The Goodbye Look
The Underground Man
​The Moving Target
Find a Victim
​The Ivory Grin
The Wycherly Woman
​Blue City
​
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
​The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Murder is Easy
​The A. B. C. Murders
They Came to Baghdad
​Destination Unknown
Ordeal by Innocence
The Pale Horse
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary
Murder on the Links
The Man in the Brown Suit
The Secret of Chimneys
The Big Four
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Seven Dials Mystery
Murder at the Vicarage
The Sittaford Mystery
Peril at End House
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Three Act Tragedy
Death in the Clouds
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Dumb Witness
​Death on the Nile

Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
​Sad Cypress
Evil Under the Sun
​N or M
The Body in the Library
Five Little Pigs
The Moving Finger
Towards Zero
Death Comes as the End
​Sparkling Cyanide
​The Hollow
Taken at the Flood
Crooked House
A Murder is Announced
​Mrs McGinty's Dead
They Do It with Mirrors
​After the Funeral
​A Pocket Full of Rye
​Hickory Dickory Dock
Dead Man's Folly
​4:50 from Paddington
Cat Among the Pigeons
​The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Clocks
​A Caribbean Mystery
At Bertram's Hotel
Third Girl
Endless Night
​By The Pricking of My Thumbs
​Hallowe'en Party
​Passenger to Frankfurt
Nemesis
Elephants Can Remember
Postern of Fate
​Sleeping Murder
​​​​​(Short stories)
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
Partners in Crime


Edgar Wallace
The Four Just Men
The Council of Justice
​The Just Men of Cordova
The Three Just Men
The Feathered Serpent
​The Terror
​White Face
​The Daffodil Mystery
​The Man Who Bought London

The Crimson Circle
Room 13
Terror Keep
​The Square Emerald
Red Aces (novella collection)
Mr JG Reeder Returns (novella collection)
The Guv'nor (novella)
The Man Who Passed (novella)
The Ringer
​The Twister
The India-Rubber Men
The Fellowship of the Frog
The Joker (or The Colossus)

(Short stories)
​
The Law of the Four Just Men
Again the Three
The Mind of JG Reeder
Educated Evans
​More Educated Evans
Good Evans
Again the Ringer
Lieutenant Bones
Bones in London

Ira Levin
Rosemary's Baby

Stephen King
IT

George Axelrod
Blackmailer

Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty
​
(short stories)
Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories

Donald Hamilton

Night Walker

Max Allan Collins
Quarry
​True Detective
True Crime
The Million Dollar Wound
Neon Mirage
Stolen Away
​Bait Money
Blood Money
​
Erle Stanley Gardner
Turn on the Heat
The Knife Slipped
Top of the Heap
​The Count of 9
​The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret
The Case of the Careless Kitten
The Case of the Baited Hook
Shills Can't Cash Chips
The Case of the Horrified Heirs
The Case of the Lazy Lover
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
The Case of the Perjured Parrot
The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe
The Bigger They Come
Fools Die on Friday
​The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Murder Never Knocks
Lady Go-Die
Complex 90

Ariel S. Winter
The Twenty Year Death

Rex Stout
Fer-de-lance
The League of Frightened Gentlemen
The Rubber Band
The Red Box
​Too Many Cooks
Some Buried Caesar
Over My Dead Body
Where There's a Will
​Black Orchids
​Not Quite Dead Enough
​The Silent Speaker
And Be a Villain
Trouble in Triplicate
The Second Confession
Three Doors to Death
In the Best Families
Curtains for Three
Murder by the Book
Triple Jeopardy
Prisoner's Base
The Golden Spiders
Three Witnesses
Three for the Chair
Champagne for One
​And Four to Go
Three at Wolfe's Door
​
Eleazar Lipsky
The Hoodlum

John Dickson Carr
The Hollow Man
​The Case of the Constant Suicides
​It Walks By Night
She Died a Lady (as Carter Dickson)
Hag's Nook
Till Death Do Us Part
The Seat of the Scornful
Castle Skull
The Black Spectacles
The Eight of Swords
He Who Whispers
The Problem of the Wire Cage
The White Priory Murders
(Short story)
The Shadow of the Goat
​The Fourth Suspect


Gene Paul
The Big Make

Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Edmund Crispin
The Moving Toyshop
​Swan Song
Buried for Pleasure
​Holy Disorders
The Case of the Gilded Fly
Frequent Hearses
The Long Divorce
(Short stories)
Beware of the Trains

Various
Mystery Weekly May 2018
Miraculous Mysteries (edited by Martin Edwards)
The Floating Admiral (the Detection Club)

PD James
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

Elizabeth Daly
The Book of the Dead

Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero

Ellery Queen
The King is Dead
The Egyptian Cross Mystery
The Siamese Twin Mystery
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
(Short stories)
The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley
Deep Water
Ripley Under Ground
Ripley's Game
​
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
The Sign of the Four
(Short stories)
The Best of Sherlock Holmes (edited by David Stuart Davies)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
​His Last Bows


Cornell Woolrich
The Bride Wore Black

SS Van Dine
The Benson Murder Case
The Canary Murder Case
The Greene Murder Case
The Bishop Murder Case
The Scarab Murder Case
The Kennel Murder Case
The Dragon Murder Case
The Casino Murder Case
​The Garden Murder Case
The Kidnap Murder Case
​
Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club
The Man Who Died Twice
The Bullet That Missed
The Last Devil to Die
​
Ellery Queen Jr
The Black Dog Mystery

Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone

Margery Allingham
Hide My Eyes

M. C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

Clare Mackintosh
Hostage

Georges Simenon
Pietr the Latvian

Bernard J Farmer
​Death of a Bookseller

John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Call for the Dead

Freeman Wills Crofts
The Cask
The Ponson Case
​
Anthony Horowitz
The Word is Murder
The Sentence is Death
​A Line to Kill
​Magpie Murders
Moonflower Murders

Ian Rankin
Rather Be the Devil
Let it Bleed

GK Chesterton
Favourite Father Brown Stories (Selected by John Grafton)

E.C.R. Lorac
These Names Make Clues
​Impact of Evidence
Murder in Vienna
Two-Way Murder
​
Ellis Parker Butler
Detective Philo Gubb's Cases

Alex Reeve
The Butcher of Berner Street

Carter Brown
The Hellcat
The Lady is Transparent

Non-fiction

Kevin Grant
Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro Westerns

Stephen Thrower
Murderous Passions
Beyond Terror
Flowers of Perversion

​Alan Jones
Dario Argento: The Man, the Myths and the Magic

Jon Ronson
Them: Adventures with Extremists
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
​So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie

Colm O'Regan
Bolloxology

Justin Kerswell
The Slasher Movie Book (/Teenage Wasteland)

The Secret Footballer
Tales from the Secret Footballer

chris (simpsons artist)

the story of life by chris (simpsons artist)

Richard Herring
How Not to Grow Up

Reinhard Kleist
Nick Cave: Mercy on Me

David Squires
The Illustrated History of Football

Troy Howarth
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, Volume 1
So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films, Volume 2
So Deadly, So Perverse, Volume 3

Neil Clark
Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace

James Acaster
Classic Scrapes

Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell
The Disaster Artist

Elis James & John Robins
The Holy Vible

Kier-La Janisse
A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi

Antonio Lázaro-Reboll & Ian Olney (editors)
The Films of Jess Franco

Richard Ayoade
Ayoade on Top

Alan Partridge (with Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons & Steve Coogan)
Nomad
​Big Beacon

Russell Brand
My Booky Wook 2

Kat Ellinger
All the Colours of Sergio Martino


Francesco Cesari & Roberto Curti
The Jess Franco Files Vol. 1

Giovanni Lombardo Radice
A Zombie's Life

Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan
Champagne Football

Roger Corman
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime

Bernard O'Shea
My Wife Married a Feckin' Eejit

Andrew J. Rausch and Charles E. Pratt
The Cinematic Misadventures of Ed Wood

Jonathan Wilson
Inverting the Pyramid

Edward D Wood Jr
Hollywood Rat Race

Tim Key
The Incomplete Tim Key

Andrew Leavold
The Search for Weng Weng

David McGillivray
Little Did You Know

Dan Martin
Chased by Pandas

Jonathan Sexton
​Obsessed
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