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Nineteenth-Century Author-Sleuths
Recently unearthed evidence reveals that several great Nineteenth-century authors shared a common trait no one previously suspected: They were all detectives. Is this Firsts’ April Fool’s Day joke? Well, maybe—maybe not.
Collecting Mabel Seeley
Mabel Seeley did not write of glamorous backgrounds in foreign cities in her highly esteemed mystery novels. She set her stories in the place of her birth, small-town Middle America.
No More Sleepers?!
Okay, who stole all the sleepers? We all love finding a sleeper—a book priced significantly below current market value. But they are becoming scarcer. Is the computer taking the sheer fun out of the hunt?
Books into Film
King’s Ransom, a novel by Ed McBain; High and Low, a film by Akira Kurosawa.
Ten Years Ago
April 1993 Checklist Update: Cormac McCarthy