Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: John Wyndham detective novels--wanted Message-ID: <3696@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:13:13 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3696 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:13:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:30:51 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 40 > From: cdstar!saltiel > I have read all of Wyndham's Science Fiction(Day_of_the_Trifids, > The_Chrysalids, etc.,) or all that I know > exists. He is unusual in that genre, in that he write prose > suburbly, (or did when he was alive.) That's not as unusual as you might think, but I'll let it pass. > He has also authored a > number of detective novels that are all out of print. > Can anyone identify these works and where I might find them in > any condition?? Allen J. Hubin's CRIME FICTION, 1749-1980: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY (New York: Garland, 1984), which is without question the best such work in the mystery field, only lists one detective novel by John Wyndham (real name: John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris) --- FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED, under the by-line John Beynon. It was published by Newnes in 1935. Since Hubin is in the habit of listing both the first US *and* first UK edition of a book, it's unlikely that there was ever an American edition. Finding it might prove difficult in the US. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business"> -------------------- Please note that this mail message is likely to be incomplete. The sender aborted the transmission. rhea::MAILER-DAEMON --------------------