Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Top 5 Posts Of 2014

The Top 5 Posts Of  2014

The top spot this year goes to........



#2
February 16th


#3
March 1st


#4
September 14th


#5
January 17th


See you in 2015!

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

2014 Fiction Challenge Update

My update with the USA Fiction Challenge.
So far, 32 states and 34 titles.
I should be able to complete this in 2015


  • ALABAMA: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • ALASKA: Birds of Prey by J.A. Jance
  • ARIZONA: Partner In Crime by J.A. Jance
  • ARKANSAS Dear Miss Demeanor by Joan Hess
  • CALIFORNIA: Kinsey Milhone Series by Sue Grafton
  • COLORADO: Buried By the Roan by Mark Stevens
  • CONNECTICUT: Deadly Advice by Roberta Islieb
  • DISTRICT of COLUMBIA: Murder And The First Lady by Elliott Roosevelt
  • DELAWARE: She'll Never Know by Hunter Morgan
  • FLORIDA: Danger Key by Lew Louderback
  • GEORGIA: Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard
  • HAWAII: The Betrayers by Donald Hamilton
  • IDAHO: Deep Cover By Steve Roos
  • ILLINOIS: Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky
  • INDIANA: Deliver Us To Evil by Joe Hensley
  • IOWA: The Silken Nightmare by Carter Brown
  • KANSAS: Hot Summer, Cold Murder by Gaylord Dold
  • KENTUCKY: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • LOUISIANA: New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
  • MAINE: Murder Most Maine by Karen MacInerney
  • MARYLAND: Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
  • MASSACHUSETTS: Promised Land by Robert B Parker
  • MICHIGAN: Angel Eyes by Loren D. Estleman
  • MINNESOTA:  In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O'Brien
  • MISSISSIPPI: Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo
  • MISSOURI: Sheppard Of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright
  • MONTANA: The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley  In Open Space by Russell Rowland
  • NEBRASKA: 
  • NEVADA: Walk A Crooked Mile by Catherine Dain
  • NEW HAMPSHIRE 
  • NEW JERSEY: Dead Man's Float by Beth Sherman  Unbalance Accounts by Kate Gallison
  • NEW MEXICO: The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
  • NEW YORK: A Body To Die For by Valerie Frankle
  • NORTH CAROLINA 
  • NORTH DAKOTA 
  • OHIO
  • OKLAHOMA: 
  • OREGON 
  • PENNSYLVANIA 
  • RHODE ISLAND: The Witches Of Eastwick by John Updike
  • SOUTH CAROLINA 
  • SOUTH DAKOTA 
  • TENNESSEE 
  • TEXAS: 
  • UTAH 
  • VERMONT 
  • VIRGINIA 
  • WASHINGTON: 
  • WEST VIRGINIA 
  • WISCONSIN 
  • WYOMING 
  • Monday, December 29, 2014

    The Ghost Of Nick Carter

    Nick Carter Weekly
    No 621
    November 21, 1908

    The Ghost Of Nick Carter
    or The Secret of The Second Sight Seer


    Street & Smith Publishers
    New York City

    Sunday, December 28, 2014

    Twins

    Twins

    Two covers by Robert McGinnis


    Germany Edition 
    None But The Lethal Heart 
    by Carter Brown
    Ullstein Bucher
    #1152
    1967 Frankfurt Germany
    1968 West Berlin Germany
    ISBN 354 801152



    Modesty Blaise
    by Peter O'Donnell

    Fawcett Crest Books
    1965
    R899

    Saturday, December 27, 2014

    Girls With Guns Day 7

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #7

    Presenting 
    So Cold, My Bed 
    by Sam S. Taylor

    Cover by  Robert Maguire

    Printing History
    Written by Sam S Taylor 

     New American Library
    Signet Books
    #1247
    1955
     

    Friday, December 26, 2014

    Girls With Guns Day 6

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #6

    Presenting 
    The Venus Death 
    by Ben Benson


    Printing History
    Written by Ben Benson

    The M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co.
    1953

    Bantam Books
    #1271
    1954 

    Thursday, December 25, 2014

    Girls With Guns Day 5

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #5

    Presenting 
    A Corpse For Christmas by Henry Kane


    Printing History
    Written by Henry Kane

    Dell
    #735
    1953

    Wednesday, December 24, 2014

    Girls With Guns Day 4

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #4

    Presenting 
    Dead Game by Michael Avallone

    Cover by James Meese

    Printing History
    Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999)

    Perma Books 
    M-3012
    1955

    Tuesday, December 23, 2014

    Girls with Guns Day 3

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #3

    Presenting 
    Baby Your Type's Murder
    by Marc Brody


    Printing History
    Written by W. H. ‘Bill’ Williams

    Horwitz Publications Inc.
    for and on behalf of Transport Publishing Company
    February 1958

    Monday, December 22, 2014

    Girls With Guns Day 2

    Girls With Guns Holiday Edition

    Day #2

    Presenting 
    So Dead The Rose
    by M.E. Chaber

    Cover by Jerry Allison
     Printing History
    Written by Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-1981)

    Pocket Book
    #1274
    1960