tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post1492436337707643108..comments2024-03-11T01:39:11.362-04:00Comments on At the Scene of the Crime: The (E-)Resurrection of a Master of MysteryPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-49331077579317022882016-02-13T05:49:21.617-05:002016-02-13T05:49:21.617-05:00Seriously, I have no idea what else to do, beside ...Seriously, I have no idea what else to do, beside spamming all the knowledgeable mystery blogs until I get some positive result. It concerns tracing the legendary complete Edward D Hoch bibliography, by June M Moffatt and Francis M Nevins, Jr., which everyone concerned seems to own already and we now strongly need, but have no idea where to find. If this is not a place to ask such thing, please point to place where it is; this cry for help fails to pass pre-moderation in the GADetection discussion group.<br /><br />I represent a group of half a dozen translators with a joint ambitious goal: to translate the complete corpus of Edward D Hoch's 900+ short stories (or at least approach to that noble goal!) into Russian. We have been doing that for some years unofficially, spreading our works among the fellow fans (a good thing to be a part of a small fandom — literally knowing everybody!). However this year we have succeeded in securing our position with a 'serious' publisher (we are officially John Dickson Carr Club of Detection Lovers Library now, CDLL for short), and soon, after Josef Škvorecky, William Brittain and Maestro Carr himself, his first anthology, dedicated to Hoch's impossible crimes, is gonna be out, followed by Dr Sam Hawthorne (like in Japanese and French) and Ben Snow (first ever) complete series in multiple books. So, the job is getting piles of EQMMs, scanning, selecting, classifying, trying to trace the stories in the other magazines and looking for the more available reprints and finally translating…<br />And that's why we are in a great need of that amazing work. As stated in EQMM (and elsewhere), it exists in 2008 edition, featuring all the stories, with the essays by Marvin Lachman and is apparently available for US shipping for $10 plus 5 postage and handling (that was in a 2008 issue). The way it is worded it seems that only US-domestic shipping is available, with local payment only. But we desperately need to get an access to it in Russia, without having any US contacts as intermediaries. We are ready to pay extra for overseas shipping and able to pay with a credit card. I tried to ask some people among the American fans I knew, but nobody could provide any help. We hope very much for a positive solution of our problem and eagerly wait for any response!<br /><br />I found an e-mail in a March/April 2006 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine which was promised to be a contact address to obtain the book, but the mail delivery subsistem told me the address is defunct. What should we do now?<br /><br />Best regards and desperately hoping for an answer,<br />Alexander Zapryagaev and all the CDLL guys.JPRidgewayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03239204379942649749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-72452455596745490962013-11-30T19:13:31.532-05:002013-11-30T19:13:31.532-05:00Hoch is one of my favorite authors and I'm gla...Hoch is one of my favorite authors and I'm glad they're collecting his Holmes pastiches. A similar collection could be made of his stories featuring famous authors---there's one with Conan Doyle ("Five Rings in Reno."), one with G.K. Chesterton ("The Bad Samaritan"), and one with Charles Dickens that I know of. Jeff Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316081079528920123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-16796344415589802212013-11-30T00:20:12.892-05:002013-11-30T00:20:12.892-05:00This is great news. Thanks for letting us know.This is great news. Thanks for letting us know.Terrie Farley Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980849018232866773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-9472752405615573002013-11-29T18:38:33.928-05:002013-11-29T18:38:33.928-05:00This one sounds really interesting Patrick. I'...This one sounds really interesting Patrick. I'll have to look into it. Nick Cardillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941093024318184603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-499247432649483938.post-56923713689922106882013-11-29T16:55:37.566-05:002013-11-29T16:55:37.566-05:00After I read the Puzzle Doctor's review, I pra...After I read the Puzzle Doctor's review, I practically jumped at the web site he referenced and was delighted to see all the previously out-of-print Hoch books available in digital format. I can't afford to buy them all at once, but I hope to get all of these into my Kindle eventually. I am surpised to see that although Mysterious Press is publishing these books, I can't find them on their web site. That has to be temporary, right?Edward J. Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925008506185290162noreply@blogger.com