RARA-AVIS: Bellem

From: Douglas G. (crippenlandru@earthlink.net)
Date: 02 Dec 2009

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    There has been a boom in Bellem short story collections -- the Pulpville ones listed below are easily available through lulu:

    Robert Leslie Bellem. God's Gift to the Sherlock Business, Two Adventures of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. No place: Air Pirates, 1981. 1st edition in wrappers, limited to 150 copies. Contains 2 stories from Spicy Detective, 1937 and 1940. The colophon explains that this edition was produced on stolen paper and highjacked equipment.

    _____. Robert Leslie Bellem's Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, ed. John Wooley. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1983. 1st edition in wrappers, probably published simultaneously with the clothbound issue. Contains stories from pulp magazines, 1938 1948.

    _____. Spicy Detective Encores . . . No. 1, Three "Dan Turner" Stories. Framingham: Winds of the World Press, 1986. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 3 stories from Spicy Detective, 1935 1941.

     
    _____. Spicy Detective Encores . . . No. 5, Three More "Dan Turner" Stories. Framingham: Winds of the World Press, 1987. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 3 stories from Spicy Detective, 1938 1941.

    _____. Dan Turner Hollywood Detective Lights! Camera! Murder! ed. Tom Mason. Newbury Park, CA: Malibu Graphics, 1990. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 3 stories and 3 comic strip stories, originally 1935-1952.

    _____. Reckoning in Red, From the Case Files of Dan Turner, P.I., Volume 1. Bloomington, IL: Black Dog Books, 2001. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 4 stories from Spicy Detective, 1937-1942, one of which ("Star Chamber") was previously collected in God's Gift to the Sherlock Business.

    _____. High Adventure Number 60, Dan Turner Hollywood Detective, ed. John Gunnison. [Silver Spring, MD:] Adventure House, 2001. 1st edition in wrappers. High Adventure is a periodical of pulp reprints. This issue reprints the entire contents (7 stories) of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective, January 1943; none of the stories seems to have appeared in previous Dan Turner collections.

    _____. Corpse on Ice, From the Case Files of Dan Turner, P.I., Volume 1I. Bloomington, IL: Black Dog Books, 2003. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 4 stories from Spicy Detective and Hollywood Detective, 1935-1943.

    _____. Roscoes in the Night, foreword [and ed. by?] John Wooley. Silver Spring, MD: Adventure House, 2003. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 13 Dan Turner stories from Spicy Detective and Hollywood Detective, 1934-1950.

    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2005. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 8 stories and one comic strip from Spicy Detective and Speed Detective, 1935-1946. "Cat Act" was previously collected in Spicy Detective Encores . . . No. 1.

    _____. Killer's Ruse, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2005. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 6 non-series detective stories from Fifth Column Stories, Private Detective, and Super-Detective, 1940-1949.

    _____. Knife in the Dark and Other Stories, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2005. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 13 non-series stories from the pulps, 1931-1949, mostly from the saucy titles, but including several detective stories.

     
    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective 2, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2005. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 9 stories from Hollywood Detective, 1943. "Corpse on Ice" previously appeared in the booklet Corpse on Ice, and "Homicide Highball" previously appeared in the Popular Press Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective.

    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective 3, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2006. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 9 stories from Hollywood Detective, January-April 1944.

    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective 4, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2006. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 9 stories from Hollywood Detective, June-July 1944.

    _____. The Cock Cries Murder and Other Tales from the Pulps. No place: Wildside Press, 2008. 1st edition in wrappers. Pulp stories, originally published 1935-1949, including several secret service, detection and one Dan Turner story. At least one of the stories, "Knife in the Dark," was previously collected.

    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective 5, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2008. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 9 stories from Hollywood Detective, August-December 1945.

    _____. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective 6, [ed. Jerry L. Schneider]. Rialto, CA: Pulpville Press, 2008. 1st edition in wrappers. Contains 11 stories from Hollywood Detective, February-November 1946.

    Doug Greene



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