One Lonely Night
10 best books like One Lonely Night (Mickey Spillane): Kill Now, Pay Later, Arrowsmith, The Cunning Man, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Worm Ouroboros, Shane, The Wood Wife, The High and the Mighty, Fear, Trustee from the Toolroom
| Author | Robert Terrall |
| ISBN | 0843957751 |
Private detective Ben Gates is in the middle of an easy gig guarding the wedding presents in the home of some very wealthy people after the ceremony. His biggest problem should be keeping drunken bridesmaids from getting sticky fingered, but someone doses his coffee so it‘s sleepy time for Ben. When...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0451526910 |
Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town.
It is Leora Tozer who makes Martin's life extraordinary....
| Author | Robertson Davies |
| ISBN | 0140243437 |
"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto's St. Aidan's on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the last pages of this...
| Author | Horace McCoy |
| ISBN | 1852424338 |
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a kind of success story. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar succeds in turning himself into a vicious and completely immoral criminal - a man whose contempt for law, order, and human life drives him relentlessly into a career of unrelieved evil. He escapes from a chain gang to join a pack...
| Author | E.R. Eddison |
| ISBN | 0486447405 |
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story...
| Author | Jack Schaefer |
| ISBN | 0395941164 |
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889.
It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefer’s...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0765302934 |
Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.
Maggie...
| Author | Ernest K. Gann |
| ISBN | 0671827634 |
I had a hard time deciding whether to give this book 5 stars or no stars.
Reasons for 1 star:
Unbelievable plot --
-Very sexist -- Women are "girls", stewardess, mistresses or hysterical.
-Politically incorrect ("slant-eyed", "Orientals")
-Unsympathetic characters...
| Author | L. Ron Hubbard |
| ISBN | 1870451554 |
A novel of compelling suspense. Professor James Lowry didn' believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first,...
| Author | Nevil Shute |
| ISBN | 1842323016 |
This was such a pleasure to read. It is a simple story about an uncomplicated man who is required to perform some difficult tasks. He has to step way beyond his comfort zone and in doing so discovers his own inner strengths. Even better, it becomes a bit of a fairy story as he discovers he has friends he never...
| Author | Charles de Lint |
| ISBN | 0441544843 |
He who Walks With Ghosts
The Gypsies live in the shadows of the city, blending in with Canadian society but never adapting to it, cling to the traditional Romany ways.
Now a series of bizarre murders have baffled the police - each death somehow connected with the city's elusive Gypsy...
| Author | Bill Pronzini |
| ISBN | 0881500224 |
This second book—like the first—in Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series is not extraordinarily memorable. And yet...there is something about it that makes you respect it and keep on reading, even through the slow spots. I think that is because Pronzini. in every line he writes, shows...
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0449129527 |
BOOK 115 - Mid-20th Century North American Crime Readathon -Round 4
"The Homesick Buick" (1950) is the short I've selected. I've read 10 of MacDonald's McGee books, plus a few other novels, but no Macdonald short stories, and nothing from this early in MacDonald's career.
HOOK - 2 stars: "To...
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| Author | Brian Garfield |
| ISBN | 0449229785 |
Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul’s wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken and forced to...
