Thanks to all for their suggestions and comments. Review of Mr. Splitfoot: Mr. Splitfoot, a name given to the Devil in the mountainous regions of New England,...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Apr 1, 2002 2:06 pm
Farfaxr: Margaret Millar: Crippen & Landru (www.crippenlandru.com) has just made an agreement to publish Millar's collected short mysteries, edited and ...
Doug, Why is it so difficult to get reprint permission for dead authors' works? Don't the heirs/agents care? Obviously they are not going to get blockbuster...
hi im new at this, bought aweb tv found your site, i love 1930-1940 detective-mystery books and your site looks great. i will watch for a while until i know...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Apr 2, 2002 12:06 am
Well, Wyatt--you have tried to help us get permission for a Patrick Quentin or Q. Patrick collection, and you know the frustration we've had finding anyone who...
Regarding the printing of Rhode/Burton at House of Stratus... Somehow, I got linked to the president of the company back in January when I was trying to finish...
Yes, that's too bad. I think Rhode/Burton is superior to Crofts, but Crofts continues to enjoy greater fame even now. Stratus has republished, among others,...
Doug, Probably sounds naive, but could you simply publish the Mitchell stories and set aside in escrow an amount of cash that literary executors of authors of...
Dear Doug, I for one will certainly buy the McCloy collection--Dance of Death, which I am in the process of finishing at the moment, is a first-class detective...
Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey (1949) A / 4.5 This classic tale of impersonation and retribution set in the rolling hills of English "county life" deserves all the...
Two short reviews of Mavity's Peter Piper, Reporter series: _____ The Other Bullet, Nancy Barr Mavity (1930) A- / 4.0 Mavity is not currently well-known, but...
I'm in the middle of the Strangeways opus, and Blake is *still* extremely satisfying, tart and funny; read only one in March: _____ Head of a Traveler,...
I know many of you think Marsh was a hack, but I always find her books to be entertaining and solid, good reads - she always has the ability to "transport" me...
I love Marsh. Her plots are often solid and she writes with great wit and panache. I think my favorites are Artists in Crime, Death in a White Tie, Overture...
Good evening (or morning depending on where you live...) Recently, I have been reading and enjoying a good dose of fiction from the Golden Age's darker side,...
Wishful thinking: Osama Bin Laden would have been toast if he was up against Doc Savage, The Shadow, Superman, Batman, Green Hornet, even James Bond. That's...
How can I put this without insulting it, because it is a very fine and readable mystery (not detective) novel? It is basically a placid Gothic Romance. It is a...
My favorite Tey novel with real detection was A Shilling for Candles, though The Singing Sands was good too. I must admit, however, that I also liked The...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Apr 3, 2002 2:29 pm
Richard I too am fond of the works of the 1903's pulp masters, and I'm glad you like the book we (Crippen & Landru) published by Hugh Cave from Black Mask. We...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Apr 3, 2002 2:36 pm
Ooops. I meant "1930's" not "1903's". Douglas G. Greene Professor of History Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529-0091 Phone 757 683-3949...
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Douglas Greene
dgreene@...
Apr 3, 2002 3:21 pm
Bob I have heard of people putting money in escrow for short stories they use in anthologies, and including a note inviting the copyright holder to make his or...
Actually, all of the small Tey opera are is good. For such a limited production, there is something for everybody. She was a wonderful writer. But her works...
"Actually, all of the small Tey opera are is good." I apologize for that sentence -- have no idea what I was trying to say. (Last night was pinochle night and...
Doug, I look forward to the new Cave collection. His work NEEDS to be rediscovered on a more 'national' basis, a la Hammett and Chandler. Of course, I would...
Sam, welcome to the group. ... No, the program should do that for you. ... It breaks the lines at the end of the screen so that you don't have to scroll across...
<<"Actually, all of the small Tey opera are is good." I apologize for that sentence -- have no idea what I was trying to say. (Last night was pinochle night...
Surely not. Even in the thirties, many excellent authors were straining against the limitations of the classical detective novel form. Good writing should be...
The Aussies in the group can access this file, though U.S. members cannot, because of copyright vagaries. (Blame Disney.) Of course, any file can be attached...
