tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post5992694681878287539..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Actors! Death of a Star (1932), by GDH and Margaret Cole (mostly Margaret)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-73991853429403175392014-09-09T12:57:18.336-07:002014-09-09T12:57:18.336-07:00LOL, I didn't even think that, but true!LOL, I didn't even think that, but true!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-27519402572486165052014-09-09T10:49:27.814-07:002014-09-09T10:49:27.814-07:00I like the cover too, it's certainly striking,...I like the cover too, it's certainly striking, but was struck by one small point that differs between then and now. When was the last time you saw a hyphenated word on the cover of a book? Especially a major word such as "Scot - land". I can hear my typography prof groaning. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-32526551303249203392014-09-09T01:02:42.597-07:002014-09-09T01:02:42.597-07:00Don't blame me, Sergio, blame the agent for th...Don't blame me, Sergio, blame the agent for the Coles' literary estate! ;) It's the same problem we are facing with the John Street books, where there is a demand but little supply left anymore. I am very sorry about it and would love to work with the powers-that-be to get these books reprinted, but they'd have to be willing to work with me! Tis the curse of copyright law.<br /><br />I was the person who discovered who wrote which Coles mystery and wrote about it in CADS last year. That and more is in The Spectrum of English Murder, out next month!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-45874057425877970492014-09-09T00:28:31.403-07:002014-09-09T00:28:31.403-07:00You make this sound like areally attractive propos...You make this sound like areally attractive proposition Curt - and then you wallop us with the info that it's a bit hard to find - you fiend! Thanks all the same though ... So, how does one know who wrote which one then? Is it like the Beatles, whre it depends which name comes first on the billing or ...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-90022814575956245932014-09-08T21:05:53.785-07:002014-09-08T21:05:53.785-07:00A highly dramatic cover, and I like the gold and b...A highly dramatic cover, and I like the gold and black, it seems to suit the cinema theme.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-23041538966667680362014-09-08T21:04:51.655-07:002014-09-08T21:04:51.655-07:00The British Library has reprinted a couple books b...The British Library has reprinted a couple books by competent third-stringer John Bude and the trio by the even more obscure Mavis Doriel Hay (I reviewed one of her books, unfavorably, here on the blog), but so much more could be done. J. J. Connington, one of the writers I discuss in Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery has been reprinted by Orion Books, but John Street hasn't. Nor have the Coles, Henry Wade (except for one book, in UK), Anthony Gilbert, Philip Macdonald and many others. A few books by ECR Lorac and ER Punshon have been reprinted by Ramble House, Langtail has done a few by Freeman Crofts.<br /><br />But, yes, all in all you're right, things are lagging way behind with the Brits.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-69656901843881542832014-09-08T19:51:51.253-07:002014-09-08T19:51:51.253-07:00This is another Coles novel I would love to see re...<i>This is another Coles novel I would love to see reprinted someday.</i><br /><br />It would be wonderful if someone could devote effort to bringing back not just the Coles' novels (I read a couple yonks ago but remember nothing except that I thought they were pretty okay) but also selective bunches of others from that era, doing for UK detective fiction what Stark House is doing for somewhat later US pulp/hardboiled fiction. There was a time when the printer/publisher Chivers of Bath did a lot of the requisite archaeological reprinting of elderly goodies for the library market, but that seems to have stopped in the 1980s or so. (I don't know if Chivers still exists.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-29157246137750248042014-09-08T16:40:14.011-07:002014-09-08T16:40:14.011-07:00This one sounds quite good! And I really like the ...This one sounds quite good! And I really like the cover.Bev Hankinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01127476456755776574noreply@blogger.com