>Also recommended is THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A
SUPER-TRAMP (1917) by William H.
>Davies. Davies tramped across North America before he
lost a foot trying to
>jump a passenger train in Canada near a town called
Renfrew. He returned to
>his native England where through his self-printed
poetry he came to the
>attention of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw helped Davies
find a publisher for
>his autobiography. It sold very well and Davies
enjoyed a long career as a
>poet. The book includes a chilling recount of a
Memphis lynching--all the
>more chilling because of Davies' own racist
observations.
That's where Supertramp (the vaguely prog-rock group) got its
name. And one of their songwriters was called , uh, Roy
Davies, was it? But their music's not very hard-boiled. I
know because I heard plenty of their music -- the group was
obscenely (and inexplicably) popular in Montreal back in the
seventies.
And Doug wrote:
>Crippen & Landru (in Association with Black Mask
Press) is indeed
>publishing Raoul Whitfield's JO GAR'S CASEBOOK this
month, but Paul Cain's
>FOURTEEN SLAYERS hasn't yet been scheduled. We don't
have all the material
>yet.
Really? Gee, it seems I wrote my intro to one of the stories
years ago, and I had assumed at the time it was almost ready
to go. Are there still stories being hunted down? A mention
here or on my site might help you run some down. in the
meantime, I'm looking forward to finally reading more Jo Gar
stories.
By the way, since I'm plugging myself, I should mention that
the new
"issue" of THE THRILLING DETECTIVE WEB SITE
(http://www.thrillingdetective.com)
is up, and you're all welcome to come on over and cast your
votes for The Fourth Annual Cheap Thrills Awards.
Thanks to the hard work of two-fisted fiction editor Gerald
So, we have some great new fiction this time around. We've
got new stories by C.J. Henderson, Dave White (an
honest-to-God P.I. tale that uses the incidents of 9/11 not
as a cheap thrill, but as a jumping board to what I feel is
not just a damn good story, but perhaps even an important
one) and Dave Zeltserman.
We're also officially kicking off our Non-Fiction Section,
which has a few good pieces by that Mario guy that we all
know and love. This section is where we'll be running essays,
think-pieces, reviews, interviews and whatever else is of
interest to P.I. fans. I've wanted to include longer pieces
for a while now, and so I'm pretty excited about it.
In fact, if any of you are interested in kicking in, drop me
a line. Or go check out the submission guidelines. For
FICTION go to
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/guidelines.html
NON-FICTION go to
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/non_fiction/guidelines.html
We've got all the regular crap, too: the alphabetical
listings of private eyes and other tough guys and gals in
literature, film, television, radio and other media, plus
news, views, links, lists and more useless trivia than you
could shake a stick at, and over on the web comic front our
regulars, Tim Broderick's ODD JOBS and Chris Mills and Joe
Staton's FEMME NOIR are still going strong.
Yep, all in all, it's a pretty good issue, I think. Or at
least better than close-up photos of nostril hair. Please
consider making THE THRILLING DETECTIVE WEB SITE your
favourite cyber waste of time. Hurry up! Rara-Avians get in
free!
Oh, and since I'm BSPing like a gas leak here, GRUNT AND
GROAN: THE NEW FICTION ANTHOLOGY OF WORK AND SEX is now out,
with my story,
"People Skills" in it. The story's a lot of things (including
definitely not politically correct), but it's also a crime
story.
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