Sorry about the delayed response.
Yes, there was an anthology of Anthony Boucher's reviews; its
title is
Multiplying Villanies and I have it somewhere in a box. Helen
McCloy wrote
the introdiction and Mrs. Boucher also worte a one page
piece. Helen McCloy
was (or is; she might still be alive!) one of the great
American writers of
the Golden Age and creator of Dr. Basil Willing. She was
David Dresser's
first wife. Dresser was the creator of Mike Shayne.
I had a big problem with Boucher; he was the first mystery
reviewer I read,
in the pages of the New York Times and in EQMM. The trouble
is that I have
never been able to finad another so good. I always wished
that I had read
others first.
Incidentally, Boucher wrote several nice mysteries; of
particular interest
is The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars, with it's obvious
tribute to
Sherlock Holmes and with a nice twist in the solution. Also
good are Nine
Times Nine, Rocket to the Morgue (a tribute to science
fiction fandom), and
the Nick Noble short stories. There is a collection of
Boucher's stories
which has several of these and others, some of them
excellent, including
several of his nun heroine. This was published not many years
ago, so it
should be not too hard to obtain.
Enrique Bird
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> Jim Doherty just brought up a couple of Anthony
Boucher's comments. Was
> there ever an anthology of Boucher's critical
pieces?
>
> Mark
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