read two Iain M Banks Culture novels and posted on the Science Fiction blog;
watched a Smallville episode and posted on the Comics Appreciation blog;
reread a volume of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and posted on Comics Appreciation.
Now it is time to tackle Poul Anderson's Murder Bound (New York, 1962), a Cock Robin Mystery from MacMillan. My copy is a first printing so it is exactly fifty two years old. The text starts on page 1 and ends on p. 198. There are no blank pages between any of the XXI chapters, each chapter begins on the page where the previous chapter had ended, not on the following page, and there are no illustrations. Thus, there really are 198 pages of text to be read.
Glancing through the book, I spotted one reference to a character called van Rijn.
The blurb inside the dust jacket refers to "...natural and seemingly supernatural forces..." This is the third Trygve Yamamura novel. I have read the first Yamamura novel and can read a description of the second on the back of this dust jacket. Thus, I gather that all three novels are united not only by their central character and by their San Francisco setting but also by references to the "...seemingly supernatural..." - whereas the single Yamamura short story goes further because it involves an actual ghost telephone call.
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