----- Original Message ----- From: "hardcasecrime" <
editor@hardcasecrime.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 31,
2007 1:08 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: New book of Steve Fisher
stories available
> This is very interesting -- Steve Fisher is one of
the authors whose
> estate I've been trying to track down for years, and
I've hit nothing
> but dead ends (despite doing some fairly intensive
detective work).
> I understand he was survived by a daughter, but
every attempt to
> locate and contact the daughter has ended
unsuccessfully. If the
> people behind "Age of Aces Books" have succeeded in
tracking down
> Fisher's estate somehow, I would be very interested
to find out more.
>
> If they did not manage to find Fisher's estate, I
wonder how they
> were able to secure the right to reprint these
stories which by
> default you'd have to assume are not out of
copyright.
>
> --Charles
>
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It is possible that they have contacted those people who have
the rights to the stories and titles in the Popular
Publications group of magazines. Dare-Devil Aces magazine was
a Popular title. I believe that may be how Adventure House
gains permission with the Popular Pubs. reprints they
publish.
Monte Herridge
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