Bill Denton posted about his recent purchases and also
mentioned receiving an extra copy of Kent Harrington's The
Dark Ride from me. I enjoyed that book as well as Dia de Los
Muertos, but have been debating about ordering a copy of Red
Jungle, which Dennis McMillan has been advertising in Firsts
magazine. The book did get a couple of excellent reviews
yesterday on mystery blogs, which, of course, I can't find
this morning.
I always enjoy hearing about the purchases of list members.
The local Children's Hospital Book Market held one of its
paperback sales in late January and the 40 cent table always
attracts the dealers. I saw one dealer who sells primarily at
the Winnipeg universities and colleges fill about eight
boxes. I wasn't as successful, but did find the
following:
Death Out of Focus - Bill Gault - Dell .35 Robert McGinnis
cover The Mask of Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer Ransom - Jon Cleary
(Scobie Malone, Australian detective) The Body Came Back -
Brett Halliday
The only books that are now missing from my Brett Halliday
(Mike Shayne) collection are The Uncomplaining Corpses
(1940), Framed in Blood (1951), Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve
(1961), I Come To Kill You 1971) and Win Some, Lose Some
(1976). I also found a couple of John D. MacDonalds to
upgrade my collection. I usually keep the book with the
lowest cover price/best artwork. My JDM want list is down to
Weep For Me, which I probably will never find locally, Planet
of the Dreamers (Bill Crider has an extra copy he will sell
me), The Executioners (not the reprint as Cape Fear), and the
collection Two.
Also found a copy of The Hard-Boiled Detective: Stories from
Black Mask Magazine 1920-1951 - Herbert Ruhm, ed. This
Vintage PBO was published in 1977 and includes stories by
Hammett, Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, George Harmon Coxe
and Bruno Fischer. Had to pay 85 cents for this one.
Yesterday I picked up a copy of Ken Numm's Tijuana Straits at
the library. It's difficult to explain but this copy is bound
in such a manner that the print is on an angle and the pages
are smaller and have much narrower borders near the front of
the book. At the bottom of the book the pages extend slightly
below the hard cover. I tried to start it last night, but put
it aside because it bothered me so much. Has anyone else got
a copy of this book as I am curious to know if all copies are
like this one? It was published by Scribner in 2004 and I
think it's a second edition as the numbers are 3 5 7 9 10 8 6
4 2. Pomona Queen and The Dogs of Winter are both worth
tracking down and I'm still hoping to find a copy of Tapping
The Source in a bookstore some day.
Kent Morgan
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