Ah yes, Dan J. Marlowe! Vengeance Man and The Name of the
Game Is Death (original version) are the obvious choices, but
they were already reprinted by the original Black Lizard. One
for the Money is another great Dan J. Marlowe novel, but I'm
personal choice (though its probably not marketable) would be
anthology of Marlowe's short fiction; he is one of the true
masters of noir short fiction, my second favorite next to
Robert Turner.
George the Librarian
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "hardcasecrime"
<editor@...> wrote:
>
> > who are we to criticize Charles's
> > business model?
>
> Thanks -- but that's all right, everyone should feel
free to
> criticize my business model (especially if I stick
my neck out by
> posting about it here).
>
> I can't say my approach is right, or the best
possible approach, or
> that anyone else's is wrong; all I can do is exlain
what I do (and
> don't do) and why.
>
> To answer your question, we don't have any Marlowe
in the queue right
> now, but I'd love to do one at some point if we
turned up just the
> right title.
>
> --Charles
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@
wrote:
> >
> > Jeff wrote:
> >
> > "While your intentions seem to be noble, I
think you're overlooking
> some
> > points and glossing over others. To turn a
profit, any profit, after
> > only a year or so in a niche market
such
as this is fantastic. And
> in
> > order to do this you've admitted that you have
had to select titles
> you
> > think will sell and with which you have
exclusivity by contract.
> That
> > business model seems to automatically exclude
works in the public
> > domain, which is unfortunate since there are a
lot of works in the
> > public domain that deserve
reprinting."
> >
> > Yes, I would love to read Chaze's book, and I
would buy a Hard Case
> > Crime edition of it (and it's highly doubtful
that I'll buy a POD
> of it,
> > since I'm enough of a collector geek that I
want the artifact in my
> > hands). However, who are we to criticize
Charles's business model?
> > Even if Charles chooses to pass on public
domain material, I can't
> > imagine him running out of reprint material any
time soon.
> >
> > Sure, there are plenty of books I'd like to see
reprinted that he
> > probably won't (any Dan Marlowe on the
horizon?), but I'm very
> happy to
> > read the ones he has. Sure, I've got some
quibbles (Night Walker
> is the
> > least of the Hamiltons I've read, for
instance), but they're minor.
> > Thank you Charles (and your partners) for
introducing me to a lot of
> > great old (and new) books I might not otherwise
have been able to
> read.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
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