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For Sale: Otto Penzler's CARROLL JOHN DALY Books
I posted pics of Otto's Race Williams books last week, and you can view them here. There'll all up for bid on the Heritage auction site, which will close March 16 (and which I know about thanks to Mr....
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For Sale! Otto Penzler's HAMMETT Novels
Thanks to a tip from Mr. Art Scott, who knows all and sees all in the Mystery world, I've been drooling overt these books on the Heritage auction site, HERE. Check 'em out, if you're lucky enough to be...
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For Sale! Otto Penzler's RAYMOND CHANDLER Books (Part 1)
This time we're lusting after a couple of signed firsts, a couple of advance reading copies and a couple of just plain desirable books. See the rest of Otto's treasure trove HERE. (Thanx again to A....
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For Sale! Otto Penzler's SHERLOCK HOLMES Stuff
Break open your piggy banks, gang, because you'll need plenty of nickels and dimes to bring these goodies home. There'll all up for bid on the Heritage auction site, HERE, which I know because Sir...
View ArticleWatch "TOO MANY CROCKETTS" now on Amazon
Mr. Gary Heck, a film producer from down Texas way, has put together a TV pilot based on one of my short stories. You can view the trailer on YouTube, and, if you have $1.99 in you pocket, the...
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STEPHEN MERTZ on Private Eye fiction - and his new series, KILROY
Where the magic happens. (photo by Paul Bishop, I think)Mr. Stephen Mertz, after forty years writing action-adventure, thrillers and other cool stuff, has returned to hardboiled private eye fiction...
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PHILO VANCE and "The Ugly End" (1941)
Here's another case for you armchair detectives. This one's from the August 1941 (#58) issue of The Funnies, displaying, once again, the comicbookplus scanning prowess of Mr. freddyfly.
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For Sale! More of Otto Penzler's HAMMETT Stuff
In this batch of collectibles up for bid on the Heritage auction site (HERE), you'll find (among other goodies) a Mercury digest inscribed to Lillian Hellman, a complete set of those digests, and two...
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For Sale! Otto Penzler's RAYMOND CHANDLER Books (Part 2)
Yeah, these droolworthy items are now up for bid on the Heritage auction site HERE. Art Scott told me about this event, which makes me wonder . . . will we soon be seeing the legendary Art Scott...
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Cover your eyes! It's "MURDER, MORPHINE and ME!" (1947)
This jolly tale, ably illustrated by Jack Cole, is famous for being mentioned (particularly the injury to eye panel) in Frederic Wertham's Secuction of the Innocent. It's from True Crime Comics #2,...
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"Remember the Alamo!" (1951)
Doff your coonskins and cowboy hats, gents, because on this day in 1836, Davy, Big Jim Bowie and the rest of the gang went to Glory at the Alamo. This pictorial tribute appeared in the Avon one-shot...
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Otto Penzler Aucton Results: HAMMETT STUFF
$75,000Here are the prices paid for Hammett books and miscellanea at yesterday's Heritage auction of the Otto Penzler Collection. Prices include the actual bid plus a Buyer's Premium (whatever that...
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: RAYMOND CHANDLER Books
$57,500$2,500$19,375$5,250$2,375$3,500$1,375$3,000 for both 1st and 2nd printings$4.250$1,125$1,500$400 for this and the book below$3,000$550 for this and the two following digests$937.50 for this and...
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: SHERLOCK HOLMES
$2,000Adventures $3,750$1,375Hound $4,500Return $10,000Memoirs $2,375Valley of Fear $6,250Casebook $11,875$2,250 for this batch and the mags below
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
$22,500$5,750$4,750 Third edition Frankenstein$812.50$1,000$42,500 for concept art, designs and storyboards from an unproduced film version of Dune planned by Alejandro...
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: CLASSICS Unillustrated
$25,000For you devotees of fine litrachoor, here's what some of it sold for in last Wednesday's Heritage auction. I guess smartness has its...
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: MISC MYSTERIES
$18,750 (inscribed)More prices paid in last Wednesday's Heritage auction. These were included in Part 1 of the Otto Penzler Collection. What will we see in Part 2?$15,000...
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Otto Penzler Auction Results: CARROLL JOHN DALY Books
$10,625Here's what the Daly books brought in last week's Heritage auction. There was a LOT more stuff, but I've shown you most of what I found interesting. Starting tomorrow, we return you to your...
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