James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 13:29:13 -0600
At 04:20 PM 12/8/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I posted a list of pulp characters couple weeks ago
and asked the
>authors. There was a hero called Uncle Tubby. I found
out yesterday that
>he was a creation by Ray Cummings, who wrote many
science fiction and
>spicy mystery stories for the pulps from the thirties
to the
>fifties. Cummings wrote to my knowledge some
hardboiled stuff, but these
>Uncle Tubby stories surely aren't HB - they are more
or less classical
>(or cozy?) oriented stuff and Tubby is a deductive
investigator in the
>manner of Chesterton's Father Brown. Not much to be
considered by
rara-avians.
>Or anybody else, if you ask me.
>
Very impressive research.
Please let us know if you find any of the others on your
list. Did you happen to notice which magazine(s) Uncle Tubby
ran in?
James
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