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Review of Ghosts of the Hardy Boys by Leslie McFarlane

If you grew up reading the Hardy Boys adventures like I did, you will probably be interested in this autobiography. It’s about the man who was the author behind the first fifteen Hardy Boys novels. You may already know that Read more…

By GilbertStack, 5 monthsJanuary 13, 2025 ago
Mystery

Review of Enquiry by Dick Francis

One of the things that sure to get me to the edge of my seat in a good mystery is the false accusation when the hero is framed for a crime. It’s just such a situation that forms the heart Read more…

By GilbertStack, 5 monthsJanuary 10, 2025 ago
Hardy Boys

Hardy Boys 11: While the Clock Ticked by Franklin W. Dixon

In the eleventh blue hardback Hardy Boys novel, Frank and Joe encounter a mystery involving a secret room with a time lock. The mystery is how someone is managing to place death threats within the locked room. To complicate the Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 28, 2023 ago
My Reviews

Review: Star Trek 2 by James Blish

I have always been a big Star Trek fan. I’m old enough to have faint memories of the original series in its original run, but most of my obsession was born in the endless reruns that started soon after. I Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 27, 2023 ago
Children

Review: The Bobbsey Twins and the County Fair by Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins are one of the four big titles produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the others being Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Tom Swift. Unlike the protagonists of the other stories, the Bobbsey Twins are very young. There Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 26, 2023 ago
My Reviews

Review: Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula by Christian Klaver

Instead of having Holmes fight Dracula, Klaver has the two team-up to go after a horrible foe. Anyone with even the slightest amount of imagination will guess that that foe will be Moriarity and probably a vampire Moriarity. The foundation Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 25, 2023 ago
My Reviews

Review: Hellboy–The Bones of Giants by Christopher Golden

What could be better than mixing Hellboy and Thor together in the same story? Mixing them up in Hellboy’s body! That’s the basic plot of this Hellboy novel. When the remains of the God of Thunder are discovered with his Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 24, 2023 ago
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Review: Trouble at the Brownstone by Robert Goldsborough

When Theodore Horstmann, the man who takes care of Wolfe’s orchids, is beaten so badly he’s put into a coma, Wolfe decides that honor demands he find the assailants. When murder quickly follows, Wolfe and Archie realize they have a Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 23, 2023 ago
My Reviews

Review: The Night Kings and Night Heirs by Roger Zelazny

These two short stories take a quick look into a not-fully-developed vision of Zelazny’s science versus the supernatural universe. The hero and his apprentice run a little anti-supernatural shop. Think you might have a vampire living in the basement of Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 22, 2023 ago
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Review: Andrea Vernon and the Big Axe Acquisition by Alexander C. Kane

Andrea Vernon is back for one last adventure, telling her eight-year-old daughter how she and the daughter’s father (who the eight-year-old has just learned was a superhero called The Big Axe—not the man she thinks of as dad) saved the Read more…

By GilbertStack, 2 yearsSeptember 21, 2023 ago

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