Friday's Forgotten Books: THE LINKS - plus - A Lost Nero Wolfe Novel? You be the judge.

I have the honor of filling in for Patti Abbott this week. (Hope you're having a nice day off, Patti.) Here's a list of reviews that are up.

I'll be updating this list every few minutes throughout the morning. And afternoon. And probably later.

Sergio Angelini: The Blue Movie Murders by "Ellery Queen" (Ed Hoch)
Max Baker: Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish by Dorothy Gilman
Joe Barone: King's Ransom by Ed McBain
Brian Busby: A Body for a Blonde by Ken McLeod
Bill Crider: Mr. Majestyk by Elmore Leonard
Martin Edwards: I Am Jonathan Scrivener by John Houghton
Barry Ergang (via Kevin Tipple): Small Game by John Blades
Ray Garraty: Hill Girl by Charles Williams
Ed Gorman: The Killer by Wade Miller
Jerry House: The Best Black Magic Stories, John Keir Cross, ed.
Randy Johnson: The Glass Triangle by George Harmon Coxe
Nick Jones: Be Shot for Sixpence by Michael Gilbert
George Kelley: Seeds of Life by John Taine
Rob Kitchin: The Third Rail by Michael Harvey
K.A. Laity: Money Shot and Choke Hold by Christina Faust
B.V. Lawson: Black Caesar's Clan by Albert Payson Terhune
Steve Lewis: Catch a Killer (The Noonday Devil) by Ursula Curtiss
James Reasoner: Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John C. Hocking
Kelly Robinson: No Blade of Grass by John Christopher
Gerald Saylor: Groucho Marx, Master Detective by Ron Goulart
Ron Scheer: Pardners by Rex Beach
Mike Slind: The Judas Window by Carter Dickson
Kerrie Smith: A Mind to Murder by P.D. James
TomCat: Murder Among Friends by Elizabeth Ferrars

A LOST NERO WOLFE NOVEL? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

Back when the '80s were young I was a member in relatively good standing of the legendary mystery apa, DAPA-EM (a fiendishly clever acronym for Elementary, My Dear Amateur Press Association). The way it worked was that every couple of months thirty-odd (or thirty odd) people would print thirty-odd copies of their own fanzines and mail them off to the Official Editor, in this case Art Scott, (aka the Emperor of the Universe). Art would collate the zines, staple them into two or three volumes and mail them back to the members. Think of it as an extremely low-tech, and extremely slow, form of blogging. A wise-guy member once defined DAPA-EM as "sort of a cross between a religion and a disease." He was right.

Anyway, my contribution to the 45th mailing, in March of '82, was this 6-page zine called Fast One, in which I discuss the possibility of a lost adventure of Nero Wolfe. Incredible? Read it and see. This piece was also reprinted in the July/August (Vol. 6 No. 4) issue of The Mystery Fancier, which, to my utter astonishment, is now available as a POD book from Wildside Press. Hey Wildside, where are my royalties?