Book reviews: The Red Tree+The Forgotten Garden +Making the Detective Story American

[kestrell]

Also, I want to insert a quick but heartfelt "thank you" to everyone who attended the May Day party--it was great! (And the Kraken Spiced Rum wasn't bad, either.)

In the new edition of GMR, I have reviews of
_The Red Tree_ by Caitlin R. Kiernan
http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_kiernan_redtree.html

_Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925-1930_ by J. K. Van Dover
http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_dover_detectives.html

and
Kate Morton's _The Forgotten Garden_
http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_morton_theforgottengarden.html