Tadalafil cost, One of the cool things about BOOKGASM is the number of authors who visit the site every once in a while to read the reviews and leave comments. For this column, I'll feature three such authors. Trust me, the column could have been longer, but I really don't think I could handle a 10-book column again, tadalafil cost. (Editor's note: That goes triple for me.) So instead, I present just a small amount of writers who drop by from time from time.
CURSED TO DEATH Tadalafil cost, by Bill Crider — Ever since I reviewed a later entry in the Sheriff Rhode series, I've been chomping at the bit to cover another in this Tex-Mex version of the 87th Precinct. These stories follow the formula of Ed McBain, where there is a central mystery while other smaller cases pop up, but with Southern flavor.
In this 1988 one, Sheriff Dan has to deal with a landlord dentist who believes one of his tenants put a curse on him, tadalafil cost. Of course, that's ludicrous, but Dan interviews the supposed witch and her glandeur of a boyfriend. Tadalafil cost, As soon as Dan straightens out the mess, the dentist goes missing. That's nothing compared to the dentist's wife, who is bludgeoned to death.
Who is behind it all is what Dan has to figure out, while dealing with a problem at the retirement home where a couple of troublemakers in their 90s want to spend those last few years living in sin, tadalafil cost. Crider's writing is slow-paced and meant to be. Tadalafil cost, The story has plenty of twists along the way to keep readers firmly enraptured, with some nice surprises that you don't see coming.
KILL YOUR DARLINGS by Max Allan Collins — This 1984 novel is the second of the Mallory series. A former cop, Mallory is now a writer/private eye for whom opportunity hits right in the face. Like the incident in this meta-like setting, since the whole of this one takes place at Bouchercon in Chicago. For those unfamiliar, that is the big mystery writers' convention that takes place annually.
Collins points out in a note that, yes, Bouchercon is real, but this version doesn't exist. He is just using it since it fits the plot perfectly. Mallory gets mixed up in a case of murder, with the victim being his idol, Roscoe Kane. He's a writer who is still angry over the way the industry treats him, especially since his last few books were never published in the States — just overseas. Kane is, I'm guessing, an amalgam of several writers in an extreme version — one of those manly men who not only write the tough-guy books, but also walks that walk, which is all the more surprising when he is discovered dead in a bathtub.
Mallory is certain it's foul play, but the local police don't buy it, so he's determined to find the culprit. All of this takes place during the four-day convention where it's going to be announced that a publisher found a unpublished Dashiell Hammett manuscript. That is only one of the bits of fun Collins infuses into this novel. It's apparent this book is a love letter not only to the genre, but its readers, with Collins naming a character after one of his fellow authors, as well as name-checking more than a few others, past and present. Richard Prather gets a nice mention.
It's a fun mystery all around, keeping the reader guessing up to the reveal. And Mallory is such a likable figure, I wish I had more of the books in the series. Any longtime mystery fan should be on the lookout for this one.
THE GUNSMITH #16: BUCKSKINS AND SIX-GUNS by Robert J. Randisi — Randisi pops out Westerns at a jaw-dropping rate. Just look at this long-running series, for which Randisi is the sole writer. That's more than 350 books, folks. And I'm a sucker for these men's adventure titles, for the main reason they make no bones about what they are: fun page-turners that deliver in action and sex.
This 1983 novel is one of the earlier books in the series, and the plot is nothing of a surprise for any Western fan. Clint Adams — aka The Gunsmith — rides into a new town with nothing on his mind. All he is there for is a quick drink and maybe a night's rest. Well, that night turns into a much longer stay, when he gets involved with the Buckskin Saloon, which is owned by a former gunslinger. As soon as Clint finishes his drink, a group of men come charging into the bar to kill him for revenge.
Clint is ready to take on these four men by himself, until he gets help from his newfound friend, Frank Leslie. The two bond over this little skirmish and Frank explains his woes with the town banker, who is holding a loan against the saloon and is hell-bent on taking over the town completely as some sort of stepping stone for political office.
This is one of those typical Western plots you have either seen or read countless times, but Randisi makes it fun for readers. Sure, we know Clint will win out in the end, but you're reading this for the mindless ride it is, plus to see how many women Clint will bed. (For anyone counting, it's four.) I keep coming back to these for the same reason people like ice cream: It goes down so well and you just want some more once you're done. No one is going to confuse these books with Zane Grey, but that's not the point.
Next time: A Festivus for the rest of us. —Bruce Grossman
OTHER BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF MAX ALLAN COLLINS:
• THE BABY BLUE RIP-OFF by Max Allan Collins
• BLACK HATS by Patrick Culhane
• BYLINE: MICKEY SPILLANE edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers Jr.
• DEADLY BELOVED by Max Allan Collins
• DICK TRACY by Max Allan Collins
• DICK TRACY GOES TO WAR by Max Allan Collins
• DICK TRACY: THE SECRET FILES edited by Max Allan Collins and Martin H. Greenberg
• THE FIRST QUARRY by Max Allan Collins
• G.I. JOE: ABOVE & BEYOND by Max Allan Collins
• G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA by Max Allan Collins
• THE GOLIATH BONE by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
• A KILLING IN COMICS by Max Allan Collins
• THE LAST QUARRY by Max Allan Collins
• MY LOLITA COMPLEX AND OTHER TALES OF SEX AND VIOLENCE by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens
• QUARRY IN THE MIDDLE by Max Allan Collins
• QUARRY'S LIST by Max Allan Collins
• RED SKY IN MORNING by Patrick Culhane
• ROAD TO PARADISE by Max Allan Collins
• STRIP FOR MURDER by Max Allan Collins
• TOUGH TENDER by Max Allan Collins
• THE WAR OF THE WORLDS MURDER by Max Allan Collins
OTHER BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF BILL CRIDER:
• EVIL AT THE ROOT by Bill Crider
• MURDER AMONG THE OWLS by Bill Crider
OTHER BOOKGASM REVIEWS OF ROBERT J. RANDISI:
• DOUBLE THE BOUNTY by Robert J. Randisi
• GALLOWS by Robert J. Randisi
• THE GUNSMITH #85: WINNER TAKE ALL by J.R. Roberts
• THE LAWMAN by Robert J. Randisi
• LONE STAR LAW edited by Robert J. Randisi
• THE GUNSMITH #23: THE RIVERBOAT GANG by Robert J. Randisi
• THE GUNSMITH #44: THE SCARLET GUN by Robert J. Randisi
• THE GUNSMITH #128: THE CALIENTE GOLD ROBBERY by Robert J. Randisi
• THE PICASSO FLOP by Vince Van Patten and Robert J. Randisi
• SHELTER #2: HANGING MOON by Robert J. Randisi.
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Thanks for the kind words, Bruce. I really like Collins’ novel, and I’d thought about doing a “forgotten books” post on it. Nobody’s forgotten the Gunsmith, though, and I’m wondering if he hasn’t bedded more women than Wilt Chamberlain by now. If not, he’s surely gaining on him.
Bruce, thanks for the review. The Collins book is a favorite of mine because I’m a character in it, albeit under the name”Tom Sardini.” A fun book. Collins, Crider and Randisi. Quite a trio, but we prove that the baby boomers have made a major contribution to genre fiction.
RJR