----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002
8:37 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Robert Leslie Bellem
> For 1930s months I started with BLUE MURDER (1939)
by Robert Leslie
> Bellem, and I'm really enjoying it. I've never read
anything by him
> before. The style is a riot, but what killed me were
a couple of quotes
> from some Dan Turner stories. Are there any
anthologies of them around?
> I looked at bookfinder.com and just turned up BLUE
MURDER itself and some
> pulps. plus DEATH'S DETOUR: THE SURGEON OF SOULS
COLLECTIJON VOL. 1, which
> is a 72 page booklet with four stories from SPICY
MYSTERY. Is Bellem lost
> to the modern reader? I want more roscoes sneezing
ka-chow.
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
: Caveat
lector.
Black Dog Books, the same small press publisher that put out
DEATH'S DETOUR, also has a collection of Dan Turner stories
called RENDEZVOUS IN RED. There was another collection called
DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, published by Bowling Green
State University's Popular Press in 1983. A Turner
story,
"The Lake of the Left Hand Moon", is in the anthology THE
GREAT AMERICAN DETECTIVE, edited by William Kittredge and
published in paperback by Mentor in 1978. (This is a
wonderful book, by the way.) There's also a Turner story in
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PRIVATE EYE STORIES, published by Carroll
& Graf about ten years ago. I can't find my copy right
now to check. Tony Goodstone's anthology THE PULPS has a
non-series weird menace story by Bellem that was originally
published in SPICY MYSTERY. I'm sure there are other Bellem
anthology appearances scattered around, but that's all I can
think of right now. I think pulp reprint publisher John
Gunnison is planning to do a Dan Turner anthology pretty soon
and intends to use stories that have never been reprinted
before.
James
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