Bruce Grossman on MSMM

Over at Bookgasm, Bruce Grossman's always entertaining column "Bullets, Broads, Blackmail & Bombs" takes a look at three issues of MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE this week. I remember quite clearly buying two of those issues (the ones from 1978) brand-new off the shelves at Readers World in River Oaks, Texas. Readers World was a nice little store where I bought a lot of paperbacks, comics, and mystery and SF digests during the Seventies. Livia and I used to go there at least once a week. It was owned by Gene and Linda Sanders (I hope I'm remembering the names right), who later moved the store and expanded it, renaming it G. Sanders Books. The new store was in a different part of town and I didn't make it over there very often, but I'll always have very fond memories of the original Readers World. (I sort of wandered off from the original topic of this post, didn't I? Go on over to Bookgasm and read what Bruce has to say, if you haven't already.)

Bookgasm Top Ten

I'm pleased to report that DUST DEVILS has made Bruce Grossman's list of top ten crime novels of 2007, as reported over on Bookgasm. Bruce is, of course, a man of impeccable taste, and I'm very glad he liked the book enough to include it.