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John Sandford: Hunting More Than Prey
Great newspaper reporters make great crime novelists. The Pulitzer Prize-winning John Camp was a newspaperman for 20 years before the nearly simultaneous publication of his first two crime novels, The Fool’s Run, published under his own name, and Rules of Prey, released under the pseudonym John Sandford. The rest is history.
Collecting John Sandford:
A Lightly Annotated Checklist of First Editions
Even though his recent novels have print runs in the hundreds of thousands and are easily findable in collector’s condition, the early books can be elusive.
The Mystery of Norbert Davis
When he died by his own hand in 1949, it seemed that Norbert Davis had made it. Scores of his short stories had been published in pulp magazines and slicks such as Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post. He was an acknowledged master of the hard-boiled mystery story. What happened to him?
Norbert Davis: A Checklist
Finding collectable copies of Norbert Davis’ four novels is a formidable challenge.
Books into Film
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Previously in Firsts
1993 – Eric Ambler, Graham Greene
2003 – A. I. Bezzerides, Boris Pasternak