Drama, Humanity, and Unorthodox Mystery: A Review of "Eight Million Ways to Die"

I found my way to this book through Nero Wolfe. In the paperback Bantam Crime Line edition of one of my favorite Wolfe books, The Doorbell Rang, the introduction was written by Stuart Kaminsky, who said that the end of The Doorbell Rang was his favorite ending to any novel until he read Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block, published in 1982.

That was pretty high praise to me, so I picked up a copy and read it several years ago. Yesterday, I read it again and here are my refreshed thoughts.

Suprisingly Good "In Universe" Fiction: Earth Hive (Aliens)

I don't read too many of these, but my friend Justin (author of The Good Guy and more, and also my co-host on The Wordy Pair) gave me this Aliens omnibus, with three novels in there.

The first one, Earth Hive (which I keep remembering wrongly as Hive Earth) was surprisingly good.