Charles,
Re your request for reprint suggestions:
> 1) REPRINTS: While I already have a list of a
few
> dozen of my favorite
> long-out-of-print titles to pursue (and only
~6
> reprint slots to fill,
> at least initially), if any of you have
suggestions
> of obscure items I
> ought to look into . . . I'd
> be grateful to get
> them.
Somebody's already mentioned our own James Reasoner's TEXAS
WIND. That's one I'd love to see in some affordable edition.
Here're a few more suggestions.
Stephen Marlowe's CHET DRUM series. They've been out-of-print
since the late '60s and are long over-due for a reprinting.
Drum was your basic Marlowe clone
(and Milton Lesser's choice of a pen name may have been an
acknowledgement of that fact), with the added ingredient of
world travel. The Marlowe/Prather collaboration DOUBLE IN
TROUBLE is one of my favorite PI novels.
Bart Spicer's CARNEY WILDE series. One of the best, and
least-known, PI series of the '50s. With a Philadelphia
setting that was unique at the time.
After doing two novels and one short story collection based
on DRAGNET, Richard Deming took all his cop research and did
a well-regarded two-book police procedural PBO series series
about a narc in a fictional Southern California metropolis,
VICE COP and DEATH OF A PUSHER. They're both about due for
republication.
Ben Benson was an unsung pioneer of the procedural genre. He
had two separate series going about the Massachusetts State
Police, one featuring rookie Trooper RALPH LINDSEY the other
featuring Chief of Detectives WADE PARIS. The author died
young, in the late '50s or early '60s, and the books have
never been seen again.
Dolores Hitchens wrote two books about a LA-area PI named JIM
SADER, which Bill Pronzini called the best PI novels written
by a woman, setting them even higher than Leigh Brackett's NO
GOOD FROM A CORPSE. I've never been able to find them at
affordable prices. You maight be able to make them available.
With her husband, Bert Hitchens, a detective in the Southern
Pacific Railroad Police, she also did a hell of a good
five-book series procedural series about railroad cops in Los
Angeles.
As for originals, maybe you could make Donald Hamilton's
final, so-far-unpublished Matt Helm novel avialable. If
you're emulating the Gold Medal line, what could be more
appropriate?
I understand that the late E. Richard Johnson may have left
behind an unpublished MS about his regular series character,
Midwestern homicide cop Tony Lonto, that should probably also
see the light of publication.
Best of luck in this venture. I'd love to see it
succeed.
JIM DOHERTY
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