Black Lizard still exists at Vintage, I guess. They've
rotated some titles
>into the series. For instance, they had reprinted
Crumley as Vintage
>Contemporaries. Now the cover proclaims them "Vintage
Crime," with the black
>lizard graphic (but no "Black Lizard" name); the
interior still lists the book
>as a "Vintage Contemporary" (something to do with
having the pages printed,
>but making new covers with higher prices?). Can
anybody add to this account?
I can add a mite to this: I recently posted two websites with
info on
hardboiled authors. One was Vintage...blacklizard. Whole
address was
<...www.timesbooks.com/vintage/read/blacklizard>.
In a 1992 edition of Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, I
notice that the
lizard image right before "Vintage Crime" on the spine. The
title pages
lists the series as "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard," so I guess
they've folded
one group into another. Vintage is owned by Random House,
unless it too
has been folded or merged into some soft drink company.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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