INCOMING

Thank heaven there's not as much this week than last week.

• Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margroff, Dragon's Gold.  Fantasy.
• Wyatt Blassingame, The U. S. Frogmen of World War II.  YA non-fiction from a prolific pulp writer.  #106 in the U.S. Landmark series from Random House.
• Lawrence Bloch, editor, Opening Shots.  Anthology of 19 "first" stories (the jacket copy mistakenly said 20 stories) from crime and mystery writers.
• Ben Bova, The Precipice.  SF.
• Martin Caidin, Aquarius Mission.  Science fiction techno-thriller.
• Harry Carmichael, Naked to the Grave.  A Piper and Quinn mystery from a prolific British author little known here.
• Caleb Carr, The Italian Secretary:  A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.  'Nuf said.
• "E. V. Cunningham" (Howard Fast), The Case of the Kidnapped Angel.  A Masao Masuto mystery.
• Cliff Farrell, Comanch'.  Western.
• Esther Friesner, Temping Fate.  Fantasy.
• Zane Grey, George Washington, Frontiersman.  Historical novel first published 55 years after the author's death.
• William W. Johnstone, D-Day in the Ashes and Wind in the Ashes.  Post-apocalyptic thrillers.
• William W. Johnstone, with J. A. Johnstone, Six Ways from Sunday.  Western.
• Emma Lathan, Green Grow the Dollars.  A John Putnam Thatcher mystery.
• Nancy Martin, Our Lady of Immaculate Deception.  The first Roxy Abruzzo mystery.
• Patricia Moyes, A Six-Letter Word for Death.  A Henry Tibbett mystery.
• Warren Murphy, Scorpion's Dance.  Thriller.
• Otto Penzler, 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense.  Nonfiction.
• Felice Picano, Smart as the Devil.  Horror.
• Jerry Pournelle, creator, with editorial assistance from John F. Carr, War World, Vol. III:  Sauron Dominion.  Shared world anthology of eight stories.
• William Rabkin, Psych:  A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read.  TV tie-in.
• Quentin Reynolds, The F.B.I.  YA nonfiction; #56 in the U. S. Landmark series from Random house.
• Fred Saberhagen and Roger Zelazny, Coils.  SF.
• Donald J. Sobol, Two-Minute Mystery Collection.  Omnibus of three books (Two-Minute Mysteries, More Two-Minute Mysteries, and Still More Two-Minute Mysteries) from the author of the Encyclopedia Brown stories.
• Charles Stross, Halting State.  SF.
• Ian Watson, The Martian Inca.  SF.

     Kitty picked up a pile of thrillers, mostly by Lisa "She Can Do No Wrong" Gardner, and a book on M. C. Esher -- none of which have I listed today.

     Also, Dawn added a couple of books to the pile in exchange for some chili and two of Kitty's peppermint brownies:

• Bret Halliday, Never Kill a Client.  A 1962 Mike Shayne mystery, so it's actually written by Halliday.
• Carly Phillips, The Bachelor.  I suspect this one's chick lit because the cover is embossed with lipstick kisses and the cover copy asks, "Will this bad boy make it to the altar?"