Kent wrote:
"The original book under the title of Jack Return's Home was
published by Michael Joseph in Great Britain in 1970. I have
never come across a copy of the book with the original title
in either England or Canada."
I've got a 1971 movie tie-in paperback titled Get
Carter.
"I have found PBs of two other Lewis books, Billy Rags and
Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon that were published in PB by
Sphere Books in the UK in the late 1970s."
Good find on the Mafia Pigeon. As far as I know, that's the
last publishing of it and Jack Carter's Law, both of which I
was lucky enough to find about 10-15 years ago at Kate's
Mystery Bookstore (or whatever the offical name is) in
Boston. They had obviously been sitting on the shelves for
quite some time. I think Billy Rags is still in print in the
UK, having been republished not too long ago, along with
Plender. Rabbit is also is print, as I recently bought it
from Amazon.co.uk, adding it to my order of Derek Raymond's
Nightmare in the Streets and a couple of UK-only
Bruens.
"Found both at hospital book sales in Winnipeg, not in the
UK. Maybe someone like John Williams could jump in, but my
feeling is that the Lewis books aren't that easy to find in
used bookstores in England."
I've only rarely seen Lewis in US used bookstores. Have
lucked into the aforementioned Get Carter, Grevious Bodily
Harm and Boldt, but those were all a loooooong time ago and I
still look for his books whenever I'm in a store. Picked up a
paperback of his first, literary novel, All the Way Home and
All the Night Through cheap on ebay some time ago, too.
The DVD of the Hodges/Caine Get Carter is easy to find around
here (DC suburbs), picked mine up in a Borders, didn't even
have to order it. I also have the UK CD of the soundtrack,
which comes very nicely packaged with a 9 x 12 repro of the
film's poster and a booklet containing some nice stills and
three essays, including one by Hodges.
Mark
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