tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post9001088017875938797..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Forgotten Book - Quick CurtainMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-76837867916199510362015-08-10T18:49:19.983+01:002015-08-10T18:49:19.983+01:00@John: You could just order it here:
http://www.bo...@John: You could just order it here:<br />http://www.bookdepository.com/Quick-Curtain-Alan-Melville/9780712357890<br /><br />@Martin and Kacper: Which Joyce Porter novels would you recommend to someone who has never read anything by her?<br /><br />Thanks --<br />SusanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-12040037338137078012015-08-08T21:09:18.763+01:002015-08-08T21:09:18.763+01:00He is very dismissive of the books in his autobiog...He is very dismissive of the books in his autobiography MERELY MELVILLE. My favourite crime novel of his is WARNING TO CRITICS which was originally going to be called THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH (brilliant title!)Jamie Sturgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13943149435161728287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-15273711880278303612015-08-08T01:14:52.995+01:002015-08-08T01:14:52.995+01:00Oh, this sounds great!
Re: Joyce Porter - I agre...Oh, this sounds great! <br /><br />Re: Joyce Porter - I agree both that her output is mixed and that she was very funny at her best. I loved her books when I was younger but these days I find the humor to be so very undercut with malice that it wears a bit thin - much of Porter's humor seems centered around making every character as odious as possible. Yet she has written some very good novels and her not-very-good novels have some very good moments in them. She was an idiosyncratic writer in many ways (her denouements tend to be very dark and sometimes rather melodramatic, jarring terribly with the tone of the rest of each novel) but I'm glad Bello reissued her books.<br /><br />Re: humor in British crime fiction in general - Martin, have you read any Pamela Branch? I read The Wooden Overcoat a year or two ago and I found it utterly delightful.Kacperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15219607289740142139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-52462746036538984752015-08-07T17:40:31.961+01:002015-08-07T17:40:31.961+01:00For some reason these two Melville books are not f...For some reason these two Melville books are not for sale in the US. Poisoned Pen Press doesn't list them in their catalog and they're the US distributor for the British Library Crime Classics. I've been waiting for them to appear but I can find them nowhere except at UK based websites. There are few US dealers selling copies at third party bookselling sites like abebooks.com, but all are at inflated prices. Since you have a relationship with the British Library I'm wondering if you know why they restricted these two titles?J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com