Description
Harper’s Perennial Library Mystery Series, 1976-1990
Harper’s ambitious reprint series was the most sustained and elaborate effort by a single publisher curating, appreciating and retuning to print previously overlooked mysteries, rediscovering neglected classics, and reclaiming forgotten novels that had sunk from notice over the years.
Mass Market Paperbacks in Harper’s
Perennial Library Mystery Series
With 350 titles, this list presents a daunting challenge to the completest collector. Entries range from the first one, Austen Ripley’s Minute Mysteries (1976), to the last, Patricia Wentworth’s Out of the Past (1991).
Books into Film
In the Heat of the Night, a novel written by John Ball, and a film with a screenplay written by Stirling Silliphant and directed by Norman Jewison.