Category Archives: Fiction

The Man Who Brought The Dodgers Back To Brooklyn-David Ritz (1981)

Posted on April 5, 2016 by vintage45

Since baseball 2016 is underway here’s one of the best baseball books. There are people in Brooklyn that still do not forgive or forget that day in 1957 when they found out that Walter O’Malley moved the Bums to L.A. … Continue reading →

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The Touch-Daniel Keyes (1968)

Posted on October 21, 2015 by vintage45

Barney Stark was a sculptor in college. Now he works for his father-in-law’s firm, National Motors,as a designer. His wife Karen was a theatre major and is working in summer theatre in Elgin City, Michigan near Detroit. They’ve done everything … Continue reading →

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Some Of Your Blood-Theodore Sturgeon (1961)

Posted on August 14, 2014 by vintage45

Billed as a horror novel it’s more of a psychological study of a man who has an affliction that would be over the top in an average horror story. In the hands of Sturgeon this is a subtle account via … Continue reading →

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The King Of Diamonds-Louis Tracy (1904)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by vintage45

Fifteen year old Philip Anson is about to commit suicide when a meteor changes his life. Philip fools people. He looks like a street urchin but is well spoken and people don’t know what to make of him. He came … Continue reading →

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Kaspian Lost-Richard Grant (1999)

Posted on March 5, 2013 by vintage45

Even though this has a SF element to it, it’s more of mainstream novel of a fifteen year old who has a cynical and challenging view of authority and is trying to deal with a mystical experience. This is very … Continue reading →

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The Interloper (The Ex-Duke)-E.Phillips Oppenheim (1925)

Posted on February 28, 2013 by vintage45

Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. This is not one of them. It’s billed as a novel of social intrigue. It’s a story of revenge without violence and moves quickly. It also reads like a … Continue reading →

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A Lot To Make Up For-John Buell (1990)

Posted on January 9, 2013 by vintage45

Character study about a recovering alcoholic searching for the girl he did wrong. She was also addicted but is now changing her life in the small town of Ashton, Canada. She’s Adele Symons who likes to be called Del. She … Continue reading →

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The Hot And The Cool-Edwin Gilbert (1953)

Posted on December 31, 2012 by vintage45

A good story about the world of Jazz musicians in the early fifties. It revolves around members of a sextet waiting to hit the big time. Rather than get bogged down with technical descriptions of Jazz, Gilbert uses names of … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Held The Queen To Ransom And Sent Parliament Packing-Peter Van Greenaway (1968)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by vintage45

The man of the title is Captain Richard Wyatt. He used to lecture his men on politics and they paid attention. He thought the Monarchy was a useless leftover from a bygone era and the Parliament was loaded with do … Continue reading →

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The Outer Edges-Charles Jackson (1948)

Posted on May 31, 2012 by vintage45

Marketed as a crime novel but it’s really about the lives of various suburbanites. There is a monstrous crime commited but it’s more in the background. No police procedural or investigation of any kind is mentioned. Jackson is the author of … Continue reading →

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