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Collecting Bruce Alexander Cook
By the time Bruce Cook began his first mystery series featuring private detective Antonio “Chico” Cervantes, he had already published several books of nonfiction. Little did he know that he would be most celebrated for his second series, the Sir John Fielding books, set in Eighteenth-Century England.
Bruce Alexander Cook: A Checklist of First Editions
Both of Cook’s series are findable at reasonable prices in the first edition, including the Sir John Fielding novels written under his Bruce Alexander pseudonym.
“Look Here, Uncle Erle!”
Erle Stanley Gardner has become a household name for his Perry Mason series, with 85 books and a long-running television series to his credit. But many of his fans think that his best writing is in his 30 Cool and Lam books, written under the pseudonym A. A. Fair. Try ’em. If you’re like us, you’ll enjoy ’em.
Cool and Lam: An Annotated Checklist of First Editions
The pre-World War Two titles are expensive and difficult to find in first editions, but they are worth the hunt. And then there is the new one, written nearly 80 years ago, but published for the first time a couple of years ago. Is it the best?
Editor’s Letter
Catalogue Reports
Antiquarian Notes
A review