tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post8886522671880581987..comments2024-03-27T11:26:20.466-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Simply Troubling: The Mystery of the New Emma Lathen EditionsThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-77159295652235960192023-09-23T20:23:13.827-07:002023-09-23T20:23:13.827-07:00For what it is worth, the US Copyright Office has ...For what it is worth, the US Copyright Office has online records that can be searched. I looked up Green Grow the Dollars (published in 1982) which shows Emma Lathan as the copyright claimant. Copyrights from that timeframe are good for the life of the author + 70 years.<br /><br />A second document is noted which is the publishing agreement between Martha, Mary Jane, and Simon & Schuster.<br /><br />Link to US Copyright Office lookup: https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=Firststaugust1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14806602381918629763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-5556793456586446342021-12-28T22:44:28.749-08:002021-12-28T22:44:28.749-08:00Isn't it awful? Those cheap looking additions...Isn't it awful? Those cheap looking additions. <br /><br />I was hoping this blog piece might encourage someone to look into it, but it's three years old now and no dice. Surely Martha Henissart who as far as I know is still alive (she would be 92) has legal representations. (She herself was an attorney.) It's possible she assigned Brown the publication rights, of course, but it's hard for me to believe that she would have done so had she been fully in possession of her faculties or had competent legal representation. Brown's checkered history alone should have disqualified from consideration, let alone how cheap and amateurish the books look. And presenting his work as Emma Lathen's own should of course be actionable. Doesn't Henissart have an agent? Or is it Deaver Brown?The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-49462592825986519672021-12-28T21:54:26.163-08:002021-12-28T21:54:26.163-08:00His name is now on everything. Won't someone ...His name is now on everything. Won't someone republish the originals? I just saw Banking on Death at Amazon with his name stuck on it. His name is stuck on everything and he's reading his tripe and probably Emma Lathen's at Audible. Is it possible he's got possession of everything?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02725495771910244629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-27267142266523345752020-02-21T18:00:06.208-08:002020-02-21T18:00:06.208-08:00It seems to be a recurrent theme.It seems to be a recurrent theme.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-82422971749878020212020-02-21T17:59:35.396-08:002020-02-21T17:59:35.396-08:00Something is really wrong here, I wish we could ge...Something is really wrong here, I wish we could get to the bottom of it.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-82732796826066086442020-02-15T15:41:59.741-08:002020-02-15T15:41:59.741-08:00I just noticed on Audible that Deaver Brown has so...I just noticed on Audible that Deaver Brown has somehow gotten his hands on a bunch of Agatha Christie short stories and is releasing audiobooks of them. Those *might* be out of copyright. Looks to me like he's just making money off other people's work.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-74262153842485624372019-11-26T15:58:28.289-08:002019-11-26T15:58:28.289-08:00Now at Amazon, all Emma Lathen titles have his nam...Now at Amazon, all Emma Lathen titles have his name added. His name is in a different color but it's right there. By Emma Lathen and Deaver Brown. Doesn't her real publisher care? I'm speaking of By Hook or By Crook, Accounting for Murder, Sweet and Low, Banking on Death, and A Place for Murder. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02725495771910244629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-64109929496532679942019-06-11T01:37:18.282-07:002019-06-11T01:37:18.282-07:00Yes, it's disgusting. The only question is wh...Yes, it's disgusting. The only question is whether it's being done with the permission of the surviving author, who is quite elderly. That I have not been able to discover. But Deaver Brown is not someone I would want to be involved with, from what I have read about him in news reports. <br /><br />Hold on to those pbs!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-75003644570445834412019-06-07T07:59:04.711-07:002019-06-07T07:59:04.711-07:00I was really pleased to discover that all the Emma...I was really pleased to discover that all the Emma Lathen book are now available in ebooks (though I have no intention of displacing my cherished (tatty) paperbacks). Still, there was a EL book I had never even heard of ("A Place for Murder") and the R B Dominic ones. <br /><br />What did puzzle/worry me was that all the books are listed as by "Emma Lathen and Deaver Brown". I think now that they have just had a Preface and Introduction added. Those two include some material which is just repeated. There is also the "information" that the writer was introduced to the books by his Aunt Dorothy and a few lines of potted bio of said aunt is added in. <br /><br />There is also a "promise":<br /><br />"There will be more as The Sloan adapts to the modern world by having moved their HQ to Ireland in a tax inversion, automating ..."<br /><br />and an offer:<br /><br />"To provide financial incentives for collectors, Simply Media and others savings on groups of 6 <br />eBooks, and the SuperSku (learning from the Star Wars franchise) "all in" collection." <br /><br />Neither tempts - especially not if Mr Deaver Brown is not only taking advantage of the Emma Lathen name, but using it to promote himself and his own work as well.<br />Carruthershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465615613400988552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-13430476256431319682018-10-07T15:32:57.424-07:002018-10-07T15:32:57.424-07:00He may have wheedled it out of the surviving autho...He may have wheedled it out of the surviving author, if not I don't see how what he is doing with have any legality. It's a shame, Lathen should have been reprinted with Otto Penzler, not stuck with this piker.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-7629376609765222102018-09-26T17:33:51.083-07:002018-09-26T17:33:51.083-07:00I wonder who owns the copyright - he's gotten ...I wonder who owns the copyright - he's gotten his hands on the R. B. Dominic titles also - I've noticed they pop up and down on Amazon, sometimes available, sometimes not, sometimes kindle unlimited, sometimes not. This past summer he put up a bunch of (horrible) audio versions on Audible.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-12441042465561973232018-09-26T01:04:58.224-07:002018-09-26T01:04:58.224-07:00Yes, it really is. No, I haven't heard anythi...Yes, it really is. No, I haven't heard anything. A person from Boston was goign to do some checking, but I never heard back from him. I really would like to get to the bottom of this.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-25467324360115074192018-09-22T20:28:34.135-07:002018-09-22T20:28:34.135-07:00Have you encountered any further developments on t...Have you encountered any further developments on this? The (real) Emma Lathen books remain lifetime classics with me, and this is a highly suspicious situation.TheEditor_PHLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08277237943556454081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-53409083199615269092018-01-18T18:12:32.059-08:002018-01-18T18:12:32.059-08:00Yes, I hope we find out something more about what’...Yes, I hope we find out something more about what’s going on exactly.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-40248040461789742572018-01-17T06:21:00.870-08:002018-01-17T06:21:00.870-08:00Very upsetting. Lathen was one of my favorites.Very upsetting. Lathen was one of my favorites.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com