Patrick T. Reardon

Published in 1970, The City Dwellers by Charles Platt is based on the belief that cities were going to hell in a handbasket. One of Platt’s earliest published fiction books, [...]

Published on January 1, 1939, Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male crackles with tension and action, heightened by an unusual point of view — the perspective of a hunted man. Normally, a [...]

Maybe I’m not as good of a Yankee fan as I’d thought.  Or maybe it’s something about baseball cards. Truth is, Bob Woods’ Yankee Greats: 100 Classic Baseball Cards, lushly [...]

Ours is an era in which novels, both high-brow and middle-brow, tend to stress the hardships and trauma of modern living.  Recent bestsellers, for instance, tell stories about an abandoned [...]

It was their first night on the small Soldier Island, and the group of eight guests had just dined on an excellent supper, served by Rogers the butler and prepared [...]

Seven Smith’s girlfriend Joy asks him about Jim Flood.  “You speak of him with affection, yet he’s done such terrible things.” What kind of guy is he? Seven, a 21-year-old [...]

For one reason or another, I’ve owned a copy of the Richard Hughes novel A High Wind in Jamaica, for about 40 years, but it wasn’t until the past week [...]

As P.D. James’s 1975 mystery The Black Tower opens, Police Commander Adam Dalgliesh has just learned that the doctors made a mistake.  He’s not going to die of acute leukemia.  [...]

Havelock Vetinari, not yet Patrician — in fact, still a student in the Assassin’s Guild — is a lot better at the work of “inhuming” targets than his teachers realize.  [...]