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Collecting Craig Johnson
Storyteller, writer and humorist Craig Johnson, the author of the immensely popular Walt Longmire series, has been called this century’s Will Rogers. Set in fictional Absaroka County along the Big Horn Mountain Range in Wyoming, Johnson’s novels have been celebrated by critics and fans since the publication of the first one, The Cold Dish, in 2005. In less than a decade he has become a legend.
Hillerman Country Revisited
When Tony Hillerman died on October 26, 2008 he left a body of work that included an award-winning mystery series featuring Navajo Tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. His myriad fans wanted more. This fall, his daughter Anne Hillerman picked up the series with Spider Woman’s Daughter.
Sketching Mysteries: Barber & Schabelitz
Artist R. F. Schabelitz was one of the leading book and periodical illustrators of the early Twentieth century. In the 1930s he married his model, lovely Willetta Ann Barber. In 1940, the Doubleday Crime Club introduced a first mystery by this husband-and-wife team, Murder Draws a Line. Barber wrote the text, and Schabelitz illustrated with some 40 sketches that were integrated into the plot. The combination delighted readers.
Books into Film
Christmas Holiday, a novel written by W. Somerset Maugham, a film directed by Robert Siodmak from a screenplay Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Previously in Firsts
1993 – L. Frank Baum, Richard Adams
2003 – Thomas McGuane, Ernest Hemingwa