The Library

A big problem with eBay is that the sellers are largely amateurs, not professional booksellers. That means that much of what's there is out of the basement or the garage: umpteen copies of the Heron editions, the ugly series of Arrow paperbacks (you know the ones I mean), and poor, jacketless copies...

What's the "best" item in your personal collection? I have DW's own copy of THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB, with the Pape bookplate, and one of the carbon typescripts for MAYHEM IN GREECE ("extra copy," with corrections in various hands). But my favorite, I think, is a letter in res...

<< You did well with the boxed set! >> Very well indeed, as I didn't have individual copies of all the books in it. The box itself was in very poor condition, but it had protected the books, at least. ------------------------------------------- I should update this thread by saying that I did, final...

I finally got this book a while back from TheBookDepository.com, an outfit which I recommend highly. It's true that great chunks of this book are recycled from DW's own accounts, but he himself admitted that those books were more or less flung together, without any real editing. Cabell puts the mate...

Are the Lymington editions of GUNMEN, GALLANTS, AND GHOSTS and MEDITERRANEAN NIGHTS the hardest titles in that series to find? I have standing searches on eBay, and check bookfinder.com all the time, but these almost never turn up, and then only in poor condition. (I'm not surprised that I never see...

Is it possible that not everyone has come back after the hiatus? I know there are some names I have not seen again. On the other hand, I'm on an Andre Norton forum that can go weeks without a posting as well. (Her death slowed that forum down drastically, though she never posted there herself.) I wa...

It's a great title, but from the Amazon (fan) reviews, the book is riddled with errors. (Glad I checked before racing over to Book Depository to buy it...)

Mystery novelist/collector Martin Edwards does a pretty nice piece on the Crime Dossiers on his website. He calls them "an intriguing experiment in crime fiction which has been imitated and developed but not as yet surpassed."

Unfortunately, U.S./Amazon doesn't seem to offer these, and I don't think it would be fair for me to go to the U.K. site to boost them...

I only caught Erika and her cards because I read the Sallust/WW II series in order, and fairly close together. I've read the Modern Musketeers at various times, and still haven't read most of the Roger Brooks. (Also, as an editor myself in a former career, it's the kind of thing I notice..)

Ooh, and look at some of the other stuff--Collected Stories of Lovecraft, and Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE, which hasn't been available for ages!

In my now-lost response to this thread, I wondered if DW ever regretted not changing Gregory's name to something else for the "new" series, and just leaving BLACK AUGUST as a stand-alone novel. However, as Alan points out, continuity seems not to have been a major concern for this author--...

We're back, but we seem to have lost several days of recent postings...


By the way, please don't include me in any thanks. All I did was check the site every day, keeping my fingers crossed that the people doing the *real* work would be successful.

Hooray!

Thanks to Charles, and Sue, and everybody else who has made it possible for the site--and The Library--to resume!

I have two of the German-translated Crime Dossiers that I'd like to find homes for...

[edited, since I have disposed of them]