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dustydigger
Posted 2019-01-04 5:52 AM (#19547 - in reply to #19540)
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Location: UK		Hi Engelbrecht.Yes I am familiar with the Edwards book. I've only read 20 of them,but recognize many more which I would love to read. Science fiction is much much better at making vintage books available (eg Gateway) but obtaining vintage crime apart from the most famous authors is much more difficult. Libraries in my area poorly represent vintage crime. In the main crime novels tend to be paperbacks to save money and once they start dropping to bits they are discarded and never replaced. I cant afford to buy many books (old wrinklies on a pension with a big family rarely have cash for book buying!) so its often very difficult to come across these old books.
Apparently Edwards' championing of vintage crime has reawakened interest in the books,some have been republished as a result,and even got on the bestseller lists,which cant be bad!
I'm sure the egalitarian,open SF community was much more helpful to keeping alive the classics than the closed shop of the Detection Club!

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