Anyway, my contribution to the 45th mailing, in March of '82, was this 6-page zine called Fast One, in which I discuss the possibility of a lost adventure of Nero Wolfe. Incredible? Read it and see. This piece was also reprinted in the July/August (Vol. 6 No. 4) issue of The Mystery Fancier, which, to my utter astonishment, is now available as a POD book from Wildside Press. Hey Wildside, where are my royalties?
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
A Lost Nero Wolfe Novel? You be the judge.
Back when the '80s were young I was a member in relatively good standing of the legendary mystery apa, DAPA-EM (a fiendishly clever acronym for Elementary, My Dear Amateur Press Association). The way it worked was that every couple of months thirty-odd (or thirty odd) people would print thirty-odd copies of their own fanzines and mail them off to the Official Editor, in this case Art Scott, (aka the Emperor of the Universe). Art would collate the zines, staple them into two or three volumes and mail them back to the members. Think of it as an extremely low-tech, and extremely slow, form of blogging. A wise-guy member once defined DAPA-EM as "sort of a cross between a religion and a disease." He was right.
Anyway, my contribution to the 45th mailing, in March of '82, was this 6-page zine called Fast One, in which I discuss the possibility of a lost adventure of Nero Wolfe. Incredible? Read it and see. This piece was also reprinted in the July/August (Vol. 6 No. 4) issue of The Mystery Fancier, which, to my utter astonishment, is now available as a POD book from Wildside Press. Hey Wildside, where are my royalties?
Anyway, my contribution to the 45th mailing, in March of '82, was this 6-page zine called Fast One, in which I discuss the possibility of a lost adventure of Nero Wolfe. Incredible? Read it and see. This piece was also reprinted in the July/August (Vol. 6 No. 4) issue of The Mystery Fancier, which, to my utter astonishment, is now available as a POD book from Wildside Press. Hey Wildside, where are my royalties?
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This was in Daps-Em? I admit I don't remember it at all. Did anyone ever confirm or deny it was a Stout book?
Evan,
my link here is last week's. I have a fresh one:
http://longwalkwithbooks.blogspot.com/2013/08/hill-girl.html
Thanks!
Thanks Ray.
I believe Jud Sapp looked into the matter, Cap'n.
Thanks for including me in the meme roundup Evan - and itterly fascinating to read about this potential new Stout - it's the sort of thing I always imagine is an April Fool, but I'm pretty convinced! Thanks.
Sergio
Ta for the link, sir. I've got a review up today which might be more suitable than The Outfit, but it's up to you. (I doubt I'll be posting anything at all next week, so maybe Patti can link today's review in next week's FFB.)
Thank you for including Barry's effort on my blog. Appreciate it.
Kevin
I have one here: http://bookdirtblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/book-review-no-blade-of-grass.html
I'll read and remark on your post after I've had caffeine!
I got one, GROUCHO MARX, MASTER DETECTIVE by Ron Goulart.
http://booksareforsquares.blogspot.com/2013/08/done-groucho-marx-master-detective-by.html
I have one as well. Evan.
Mine is finally up, Evan.
Jeez, I didn't come back from the dead until 8am (Pacific). My apologies to all you earlier risers.
This really takes me back. My sister and I used to have a 'zine of weird Victoriana -- anything from Conan Doyle to Jack the Ripper. (We had a "Sexiest Man Alive" feature that would usually be some Boer War luminary.)
I miss 'zines so much. Blogs are just not quite the same.
"Boer War luminary" Ha!
You'll have to scan those pages and post'em up.
Ah, DAPA-Em. I miss the old days.
I'm up...and happily showing as a linking site. (No apologies needed on my usual late-running account.)
Thanks so much!
Thanks for hosting FFB, Evan! We all appreciate it!
I miss DAPA-Em too. Dang.
So now you have me prowling the usual websites (unz.org, pulpgen and pulpmags.org) looking for yet another author! Curse you, Jack Dalton...
Alas, Judd died way before his time. Did he come up with anything before his death? I kind of doubt it. What about the Wolfe pack?
This cover should look familiar:
http://philsp.com/data/images/p/private_detective_stories_194406.jpg
According to FictionMags Index George A. McDonald was active from 1933 to 1946 in various detective magazines. Would be interesting to see if there are any other 'Titus Lyon' stories in "Private Detective Stories".
Good catch, Bryan.
The link to Todd's posting leads to a wrong site.
That cover was a fake, isn't it ?
https://adventurehouse.com/shop/product/private-detective-stories-06-44/
Well, yeah.
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