Book Chase

Travis McGee is living the good life. He lives comfortably on a Florida houseboat and takes a “salvage consultant”job only when it appeals t...

  This past week was not the one I expected it would be. I’ll keep it short, but here’s what happened. Two Texas Highway Patrol troopers ran...

  By the time the crime novels collected here first appeared in the early 1960s, the popularity of the type of crime fiction pioneered by Ra...

  Fredric Brown's 1961 noir crime novel The Murderers made me realize just how much more sensitive to sexual slurs and crimes even my bo...

  I've purposely slowed down my reading pace (well, it was not entirely voluntary for me to slow down...but that's another story for...

I only discovered Thomas Berger’s 1964 novel Little Big Man after watching its 1970 movie version starring Dustin Hoffman in the title role....

The Best Man to Die (1969) is the fourth novel in what would turn out to be Ruth Rendell’s twenty-four book Inspector Wexford series. The tw...

1961 First Edition Cover Rightfully so, Elmore Leonard is best known for his crime fiction, but Leonard was not always a mystery writer. He ...

This is a 1982 edition of a western first published in 1963 James, over at Ready When You Are, C.B ., is hosting a western reading chall...

Tom Chaney makes the biggest mistake of his already despicable life when he murders Mattie Ross’s father and robs him of his horse and the c...