I'LL INTERLACE COMPLEMENT OF INFO INTO MARK'S TEXT. I TRUST
THIS WILL HELP
TO COMPLETE THE LIST:
>Okay, here's what I've managed to put together on
Derek Raymond/Robin
>Cook.
>
>First he wrote a number of books as Robin
Cook:
>1962--The Crust on Its Uppers
>1963--Bombe Surprise
>1966--The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip
>1969--Private Parts in Public Places (US title, in
UK--1967--Public
>Parts and Private Places)
>1970--A State of Denmark
>1971--Tenants of Dirt Street
>Somewhere (Hidden Files, I think) I saw a passing
reference to a book
>called The Inmates, but have seen no other mention.
Anybody know
>anything about it?
NO TRACES FOUND...
[SNIPPED]
>Le Soleil Qui S'Eteint (I don't know the date, but
this was published
>only in France. According to an intro in the first
Fresh Blood
>anthology, "He regarded it as a pot-boiler that had
simply eased him
>back into writing after his long layoff during the
seventies").
PUBLISHED IN FRANCE ONLY, IN 1982 IN 'SERIE NOIRE' BY
GALLIMARD.
WAS PROJECTED AS "SICK TRANSIT", TITLE FOR ITS POSSIBLE UK
VERSION, BUT
NEVER WAS PUBLISHED THERE.
>1984--He Died With His Eyes Open
>1985--The Devil's Home on Leave
>1986--How the Dead Live (his obituary mentioned that
this was his 9th
>book, which raises the question about Inmates,
possibly an alternative
>title?)
>Cauchemar Dans La Rue (I think this goes here. In
Hidden Files, Raymond
>mentions a book written between the first three
factory novels and Dora
>Suarez. Published in France. The first chapter in
English is in the
>1st Fresh Blood as Nightmare In The Street. Is the
whole thing going to
>be published? he asked hopefully.)
PUBLISHED IN FRANCE IN 1988 BY RIVAGES. NO ENGLISH
EDITION.
>1990--I Was Dora Suarez
>1992--Hidden Files--not fiction and, subtitle
notwithstanding, not
>really an autobiography, though it does contain many
revealing stories
>from his life. Instead, it is a long rumination on
what Raymond calls
>"the black novel," his own and those of others. Talks
a lot about Dora
>Suarez, where it came from and how writing it affected
him, causing a
>nervous breakdown.
>1993--Dead Man Upright
>1994--Not Till the Red Fog Rises
>1994--Every Day is a Day in August--short story,
published posthumously
>in the short-lived Purr magazine, which dates it to
between drafts of
>Dora Suarez. I think it was also collected into the
London Noir
>anthology.
THIS IS A RATHER LONG SHORT STORY; PUBLISHED FIRST IN FRANCE
IN 1990
>
>Except for the French books, Hidden Files and Red Fog,
all of the novels
>from this later period are in the Factory
series.
FROM MY OWN SOURCES, THE FACTORY SERIES COVERS HIS PRODUCTION
FROM 1983 TO
1994, AND IT SEEMS INCLUDING 'NOT TILL THE RED FROG
RISES'
>SNIPPED
>
>>
>Hope this helps anyone interested in Raymond/Cook.
Please let me know
>anything I am missing.
>
>Mark
>
SHORT STORIES:
'BRAND NEW DEAL' IN LONDON NOIR/1994
OTHERS WERE PUBLISHED IN FRANCE, AS WELL AS PREFACES AND
GENERAL TEXTS.
FILMS:
TWO NOVELS WERE ADAPTED FOR FILMS IN FRANCE:
-ON NE MEURT QUE DEUX FOIS- BY JACQUES DERAY- 1985
(FROM: HE DIES WITH HIS EYES OPEN)
-LES MOIS D'AVRIL SONT MEUTRIERS- BY LAURENT HEYNEMANN-
1986
(FROM: THE DEVIL'S HOME ON LEAVE)
COOK REMAINS AS ONE OF THE GREAT NOIR AUTHORS AND IT IS A
REAL PITY HIS WORK
NEVER FOUND A GOOD AUDIENCE IN THE USA.
E.BORGERS
HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES
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