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1 review
Jonathan Latimer

International Polygonics LTD, 1988

Great Hard Boiled Detective, but w/ lots of humor
I read this book in college as part of a course on Detective Fiction. The professor (I believe) offered it along w/ Chandler and Dashiell Hammett as the quintescential anti-hero of the era. What I remember most was that while attempting to solve the case, the shamus seizes every opportunity to "party" for lack of a better word. Very funny, very well written.

Backyard Birds (Peterson Field Guides (R) for Young Naturalists)

5 reviews
Jonathan Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Alot of fun!
My girls and I love this book! What a pleasure to be able to look out our window and now be able to identify the types of birds that live among us. We even now can recognize a bird by sound. This book includes wonderful pictures with easy to read descriptions of the birds and their habits. What a great way to spend time with each other having fun exploring and learning. A book that can be ...

The search for my great-uncle's head

1 review
Jonathan Latimer

International Polygonics, 1937

A classic whodunit
The author had the rare ability to write a mystery with genuine jeopardy and suspense and do it all with tongue in cheek. The title alone should demonstrate the latter. In other novels, Mr. Latimer's private detective gets himself committed to a private insane asylum to protect a client. In another work, a wealthy man on death row, five days from electrocution, decides he wants to live and ...

Solomon's Vineyard

3 reviews

Munsey's, 2008

Last man standing indeed.
Dashiell Hammett did the "lone man against a corrupt, evil, violent town" scenario first in the great classic RED HARVEST, but I'm not sure he did it better than Latimer did in this hard boiled noir story that was so hot that the unexpurgated version couldn't be published in the US for almost 40 years. Lone wolf PI Karl Craven comes to town to finish a job and revenge the death of his partner. ...

Young Naturalist Guide to Butterflies

1 review
Jonathan P. Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting

Sandpiper, 2000

A superb guide to the world of butterflies
"Butterflies," a field guide co-authored by Jonathan P. Latimer and Karen Stray Nolting, is a beautiful and informative guide to this fascinating family of insects. A well-written introduction gives basic information about butterfly anatomy, the butterfly life cycle, and other relevant matters. But the main body of the book consists of individual profiles of many major species of butterfly. Each ...

Headed for a Hearse

2 reviews
Jonathan Latimer

No Exit Press, 1988

Great Screwball Comedy/Mystery
Jonathan Latimer was a reporter with Chicago Herald Examiner in the thirties before publishing this first novel in 1935. The central character is Bill Crane, an operative with a detective agency in Chicago. There are 4 other Bill Crane books by Latimer, all of them hilarious. Crane has to be the hardest drinking private dick in the history of literature, even surpassing Hammett's Nick Charles. ...

Ultimate Pulp the Fifth Grave by Jonathan Latimer & Night Squad by David Goodis ('ultimate Pulp)

1 review
Jonathan Latimer, David Goodis

Glenneyre Press, 2005

What you don't know could cost you!
The Fifth Grave is a retitling of Jonahtan Latimer's SOLOMON'S VINEYARD and may in fact be the heavily cut version, as this 1941 hardboiled noir novel was deemed too hot by censors for its then-graphic descriptions of sex. In its uncut version, it reads like a faster, nastier version of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and at 124 pages, it's an impossible to put down page turner. Easily one of the ...

Wildflowers

1 review
Jonathan P. Latimer

Topeka Bindery, 2001

Peterson First Guides: Wildflowers
This publication personally helped me become more familiar with the wildflowers. It includes specs and descriptions of 188 wildflowers. To start off the illustrations in this field guide are very realistic. The addition of color helps the reader to identify the flowers and plants as they are in the wild. I personally found it difficult when using other field guides to identify the differences ...

Songbirds (Peterson Field Guides for Young Naturalists)

1 review
Jonathan P. Latimer

Topeka Bindery, 2000

Great for Kids
This book is great for kids. Interesting information, beautiful pictures, and presented in a kid-friendly, easily readable manner. I'm a teacher and using it at school.

Trees of North America (A Golden Field Guide from St Martin's Press)

18 reviews
C. Frank Brockman

Topeka Bindery, 2001

A true field guide - as good as it gets
This is one of the best tree field guides I have ever used. Comparing this guide to the tree field guide published by Audubon, the paintings in the Golden guide display leaf features much more clearly than the photos used in the Audubon guide. Also, this guide covers over 500 species throughout the U.S. while similar pocket-sized field guides don't cover such a broad range. The descriptions of ...

Backyard Birds
Jonathan P./ Nolting, Karen Stray/ Roger Tory Peterson Institute (ILT)/ Peterson, Virginia Marie (INT) Latimer

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Murder in the Madhouse

1 review
Jonathan Latimer

Hyperion Books, 1989

SNAPPY 1930'S HARDBOILED, GENTLY SKEWED
If you like humor with mayhem, hardboiled and "closed community" "golden age" mysteries this melange of a funny novel is for you. PI Bill Crane goes undercover at a lunatic asylum (well, OK, it *is* a high-class joint, and they don't call the patients lunatics but "guests") to solve a theft and guard an old lady, and then people start dying. Terse hardboiled-style writing, well done, a fast ...

Bizarre Birds
Jonathan P. Latimer

Rebound By Sagebrush, 1999

This new series is designed with the beginner in mind. Featuring the original art of celebrated naturalist Roger Tory Peterson; incorporating the Peterson Identification System, the most effective method for bird identification; and using a straightforward design. This series makes field guides accessible and appealing to children. Roger Tory Peterson was the inventor of the modern field guide. Known as the father of modern bird watching, he has ...

Birds of Prey (Peterson Field Guides (R) for Young Naturalists)
Jonathan Latimer, Karen Stray Nolting

Houghton Mifflin, 1999

This new series is designed with the beginner in mind. Featuring the original art of celebrated naturalist Roger Tory Peterson; incorporating the Peterson Identification System, the most effective method for bird identification; and using a straightforward design. This series makes field guides accessible and appealing to children. Roger Tory Peterson was the inventor of the modern field guide. Known as the father of modern bird watching, he has ...

Black Is The Fashion For Dying
Jonathan Latimer

Random House, 1959

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