For anyone who's got deep pockets, Christie's is getting
ready to auction off the Detective Fiction Library of Richard
M. Lackritz, M.D., Part II. According to the email I got, the
Lackritz collection is one of the most important of its kind
to be sold at auction in the past twenty years devoted to the
hard-boiled school of fiction and the auction includes all
major titles by Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell
Hammett, Ellery Queen, and many others..
You can browse the catalog at
http://www.christies.com/promos/inthegallery/inthegallery.asp?month=septembe
r#1117
Their definition of hard-boiled definitely doesn't map to any
of those used here at Rara-Avis...since the author list
includes Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers and others
who fall far afield of that adjective.
Chris
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