The problem with having too many books is not having a place
to put them. Please stop mentioning books that I have in our
unwinterized, read very, very cold, cottage on Lake Winnipeg.
First of all, it was my father's Michael Shayne collection
that I wanted close at hand. Now it's A Stone For Danny
Fisher, which I read many years ago and enjoyed very much. I
can picture it sitting on top of a wardrobe with a long line
of early paperbacks. The John D. MacDonald collection is in
another room.
While rummaging around at the cottage last summer, I found a
copy of the Best Detective Stories of the Year for 1957.
Includes stories by MacDonald, Queen, Craig Rice, Evan
Hunter, William Fay and Henry Slesar, who I remember from
writing a book about hot rods. The stories were first
published in Manhunt, Michael Shayne, Hitchcock, Queen,
Argosy, This Week, Cosmopolitan, The Saint Detective and
Saturday Evening Post. Next to it was volume 1 of the World's
Great Detective Stories published in 1928 and The Mystery of
the Fiddling Cracksman by Harry Stephen Keeler. It's a fourth
printing from 1938. Anyone know anything about these books
from a content, not value, point of view?
Kent Morgan in Winnipeg
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