At 02:35 PM 4/20/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Is this by William Burton? I included his "The Secret
Cell" (also 1837, also
>GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE) in VICTORIANA but was never
able to locate
>the promised sequel to it--it's got a police
detective main character who
>uses his wife as an information-gathering
agent.
>
>jess
Yes, Burton. As I went through the issues of the magazine
tracking down all the "chapters" from "Pages From The Diary
of a Philadelphia Lawyer" (the formal title of the entire
work), I found that "The Murderess" was the first "chapter"
and the succeeding three chapters were all in the same issue
but interspersed throughout. So, the first four chapters were
in Volume II, Jan-June 1838 and the final three chapters,
also interspersed in the next issue, Volume III, July-Dec.
1838. I wonder if Burton "buried" the proposed sequel
to
"The Secret Cell" under some other name in either that issue
or a succeeding issue. I'll have a look next time I'm at the
university library.
Bill Harker
Marlowe is a man "in a lonely street, in lonely rooms,
puzzled but never quite defeated."
Raymond
Chandler, 1959
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