Dover has accepted a successor volume from me, called
tentatively
GREAT CLASSICS OF DETECTION--Dover likes titles like
that--and I
expect it by thie summer. It too will be in the Thrift Series
at
$2.00 or $2.50. Dover has also published with my
introductions some
early detective novels in the Thrift Series: Rinehart's
THE
CIRCULAR STAIRCASE, Rohmer's THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU-MANCHU,
Bentley's
TRENT'S LAST CASE, Christie's THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT
STYLES, and
Milne's THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY.
As for L. T. Meade's THE DETECTIONS OF MISS CUSACK, it's
available
from George Vanderburgh's Battered Silicon Dispatrch Box
Press, in
both cloth and trade softcover. The co-editor is Jack Adrian
whose
anthologies from THE STRAND must be familiar to readers of
this list. George can be reached by e-mail:
gav@gbd.com
George has also reprinted B. Fletcher Robinson's legendary
rarity, THE
CHRONICLES OF ADDINGTON PEACE.
Although Meade's books for teenage girls are very common, her
mystery
collections are quite scarce. I have both volumes of STORIES
FROM
THE DIARY OF A DOCTOR but neither is a first edition, and I
have a
scattering of her other books.
Yes, I am the author of JOHN DICKSON CARR; THE MAN WHO
EXPLAINED
MIRACLES, but though it was a nominee it did not win the
Edgar. but
you may keep thinking it did, if you wish!
Doug
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