tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post460821737434546120..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - It Walks by NightMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-41587563525795261292019-07-10T19:08:57.802+01:002019-07-10T19:08:57.802+01:00Glad you are pleased, Stefano. I would love to see...Glad you are pleased, Stefano. I would love to see your paper on JDC.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-47523603702908043332019-07-10T19:08:23.740+01:002019-07-10T19:08:23.740+01:00Thanks, Ken. Fascinating!Thanks, Ken. Fascinating!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-57599934878272835642019-07-09T17:16:12.599+01:002019-07-09T17:16:12.599+01:00I read with interest your comment about JDC changi...I read with interest your comment about JDC changing the title of his first novel as it recalled to mind a simple oversight I made recently when looking on Amazon for JDC novels I hadn’t read before. I duly ordered ‘The Black Spectacles’ only to realise after the first few chapters that I had already read this story under the title ‘The Problem of the Green Capsule’. No matter, I didn’t remember who the perpetrator was and enjoyed it just as much second time. Whilst writing, I would just like to say ‘thank you’ to you, Martin, for giving me the encouragement to continue with my own writing when you gave a talk at my home town of Woking last November. I’m pleased to say I became a published author on New Year’s Day and have since had a few more short stories published. Small beer but it’s a start!Alan Barkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-7610096613065506722019-07-06T07:52:25.311+01:002019-07-06T07:52:25.311+01:00That’s fantastic news Martin! Precisely a year ago...That’s fantastic news Martin! Precisely a year ago, at the Captivating Criminality Conference in Bath, I presented a paper on JDC asking desperately for the reprinting of one of his books here in the UK. I may have polemicized a little bit, but I am convinced that there has never been someone like him in the long history of detective writing. I’m glad this is going to happen. Thank you!<br /><br />StefanoStefanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05000900457511641277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-13903183918002198892019-07-05T14:02:57.978+01:002019-07-05T14:02:57.978+01:00You have intrigued me with both this novel and the...You have intrigued me with both this novel and the biography! By the way, speaking of sealed pages, not very long ago I got to the end of one of the mysteries praised by Sayers in her 1930s reviews, and the edition in my hands was indeed very old, and to my unspeakable astonishment discovered that the two very last pages had never been cut apart! Whoever and however many people had read this copy over the past 40-50 years had never bothered to notice they didn’t actually read it to the end! I wish I could remember which book it was. I meant to but forgot. KenTextshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04025929807420828868noreply@blogger.com