In a message dated 9/13/03 4:04:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:42:42 -0400
From: "Douglas Greene" <
dgreene@odu.edu>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: T.S. Sribling
I'm not sure I would call Stribling "Noir" and
certainly not "hardboiled,"
but his 2 collections of detective stories -- CLUES OF
THE CARIBEES (1929)
and BEST DR. POGGIOLI DETECTIVE STORIES (1975) are
subversive of the form.
Crippen & Landru has contracted with Stribling's
heirs to issue the
unreprinted stories that appeared in ADVENTURE and BLUE
BOOK in the late
20's and 30's. It will be called DR. POGGIOLI
CRIMNINOLIGTS, edited by
Arthur Vidro and published in our Lost Classics series
sometime early next
year.
Doug >> I would love to see a list of the stories
(which could be sent offline) as I have many but not all of
the unpublished Poggioli stories. As you no doubt know, there
are unreprinted Poggioli stories from the 1950s that appeared
in the Lowndes-edited pulps and also some from The Saint
digest that the Dover volume did not include. I am happy for
whatever is included and will certainly buy it when it is
out.
Thanks for the good comments on the Anderton post. I have
just ordered two additional copies of Famous Detective with
stories by Anderton (not certain if Ware and Pender stories
are in them). Also in one of the issues is another story by
Hunt Collins and I am hopeful it is a Guthrie Lamb story. By
the way my copy just arrived of GLADLY THE CROSS-EYED BEAR by
Ed McBain (1996) and indeed this is the same Guthrie Lamb.
Here is a quote:
"The man's name was Guthrie Lamb.
"He was telling me he'd been a famous detective for more
years than I had been on earth, having started his agency
back in 1952, when he used to operate out of New York
City."
Matthew Hope notes that he was very large and fit for a man
in his 60s although "I had no way of knowing what he might of
looked like when he first put in an appearance as a Famous
Detective..." He also notes that Lamb "seemed to be carrying
a very large gun in a highly visible shoulder holster."
Which, although I have yet to read beyond this point,
indicates that Guthrie may still be carrying his .45
Automatic. I have my late father-in-law's .45 Colt automatic
and his shoulder holster and I can testify that it makes a
pretty big bulge.
Richard Moore
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