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>From: jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
>> > > "Patrick King"
>> > > abrasax93@
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> I don't dismiss Hornung at all. I
love Hornung. But
>> > >
>> > > his books are our of print.
>> >
>> Have you read any of the collections of Raffles
stories written by
>> Berry Perowne (i.e. Philip Atkey) in the 1930s.
Have managed to get
>> hold of one, and enjoyed it. It's a pity someone
has not released a
>> collection of them since.
>
>Barry Perowne, an outstanding writer, seems to be all
but forgotten.
>Occasionally one of his stories will appear in an
anthology, but I bet
>his name has little recognition. Marvellous writer. I
was thinking of
>this oblivion phenomenon the other day, while
rereading a collection
>of short stories (not crime stories) by the great
A.E. Coppard,
>another English master living with the cobwebs except
for the
>occasional appearance in an anthology for students...
Tough luck.
It's even worse for the mid-listers. Consider T. Arthur
Plummer. As I wrote here:
http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2007/08/care-and-feeding-of-your-dead-writer.html
Plummer wrote seventy novels, fifty about his main character,
Detective-Inspector Andrew Frampton. Fifty novels, over
thirty years. And now both Plummer and Frampton are utterly
forgotten. At one time Plummer was hugely prolific, and
presumably rather popular. And now? He's not even a
footnote.
jess
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