> Now the help I need: some authors/books I can't find
in my reference books.
> And from the staggering amount of knowledge I've
registered on rara-avis,
> maybe you can help me out:
> Who was Shipley Adams and when did he publish 'Murder
Well Begun'? And
> Robert Chestnut, Lewis Clay and Charles Clos? I'll
just mention Barry Cord
> and James Dark before I stop. I have a few more
names, but maybe you'll let
> me bother you some other time.
According to Hubin's _Bibliography of Crime Fiction_,
Shipley
Adams published four books -- _Murder Unsolved_
(Boardman,
1947), _Money by Menaces_ (Fiction House, 1948), _Murder
in
the First Person_ (Boardman, 1948), and _Murder Well
Begun_
(Boardman, 1950). At least the last two featured the
series
character "Inspector Harrow".
James Dark published at least 16 thrillers (judging from
their
titles like "Operation Ice Cap", "Sea Scrape",
"Assignment
Tokyo"), mostly starring "Mark Hood", between 1952 and 1971.
A
note in Hubin says that "most if not all of these titles
were
originally published by Horwitz in Australia", and lists
Signet
as the American publisher for about half of them.
WorldCat
notes that several of them say "A Mark Hood Thriller" on
the
cover.
Chestnut, Clay, and Cord aren't listed in Hubin; but
checking
in WorldCat, we find that Barry Cord (born in 1913)
wrote
Westerns, *lots* and *lots* of Westerns, from around 1951
to
1970 or so. Lewis Clay is listed as the author of _The
Wanton
Hour_ (Pyramid, 1955), and nothing else. And Robert
Chestnut
shows up with _The Syndicate_ (Newsstand Library, 1960),
and
nothing else.
There's nothing on Charles Clos in Hubin or WorldCat or
the
Library of Congress, but I did find a reference to him in
the
British Library catalogue as the author of _Call It
Experience:
A Novel_ (London: Brown, Watson, 1959).
-- Fr. John Woolley
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