I had never heard of Dean Corll until I watched "Mindhunter" on Netflix and they mentioned him. It's amazing there is really nothing written about him, I ended up buying this book off Amazon, and it wasn't terribly good, but better than nothing, I guess. Corll lived in Houston and murdered at least 30 young boys before one of his victims killed him. He owned his own candy manufacturing business (hence the name of the book), and he lured a lot of kids that way.
After reading the atrocity of "Beneath the Attic", I wanted to reread the real thing. There were still some glaring inconsistencies, since the ghostwriter had taken over at this point, but it wasn't nearly as bad.
I loved the third installment in Abdul-Jabbar's Mycroft and Sherlock series. Mycroft goes to Vienna to have his heart repaired, and upon arriving back to England he is visited by Deshi Hai Lin, father to Ai Lin, the Chinese woman Mycroft developed feelings for in the second book. Lin asks Mycroft a big favor: his future son in law, the man who is marrying Ai Lin, has been arrested by the Chinese government and charged with treason. Lin would like Mycroft's help rescuing him. Mycroft agrees to do what he can. Meanwhile, Sherlock has gotten himself expelled from school so he can investigate a string of murders committed by the Fire Four Eleven killer. Mycroft puts his foot down when his brother tells him he doesn't want to return to school, but when the Queen herself asks him to look into them, he reluctantly agrees to allow his younger brother to play detective. It was super clever and tons of fun, and I love the developing sibling rivalry between Mycroft and Sherlock.
"Forbidden Hollywood" was a fun look at pre-Code movies and how risque they were. It had a lot of gorgeous black and white stills of major stars from the 1920s and 30s.
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