tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post4708526858030657043..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: some crime fiction magazines on the newsstands for August 1964Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-43681570488415388572017-01-12T09:44:40.824-05:002017-01-12T09:44:40.824-05:00Richard Fidczuk confirms that it was 15yo .Zoë Fai... Richard Fidczuk confirms that it was 15yo .Zoë Fairbairns's first published story, as far as the JCMM folks were aware, at very least.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-83524858607549073972017-01-12T06:30:06.380-05:002017-01-12T06:30:06.380-05:00Prashant--Yes, Gallico was a versatile talent. As ...Prashant--Yes, Gallico was a versatile talent. As noted, for me the AHMM crown is about as familiar from my reading through the years as the EQMM and SAINT writers, the LONDON MYSTERY somewhat less so...but you've lived your life in the Commonwealth, and I in the States, so no surprise!<br /><br />Keith--It really is quite an impressive selection, with some magazines rather more so than others, of course. Thanks for the refresher on Arthur Kent's career...one hopes an agent might well've done a rather better deal than £50 for them..I imagine that if Kent somehow was to have reviewed the book for the EXPRESS, they wouldn't've paid him much if any less for the review.<br /><br />David Pringle notes on a discussion list that Fairbairns would've been in her mid-teens when that story was published in JCMM...perhaps her first, or very nearly her first, professional publication.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-67970607934518219162017-01-10T21:40:43.225-05:002017-01-10T21:40:43.225-05:00Oh, what a feast, Todd! But even then distribution...Oh, what a feast, Todd! But even then distribution tended to be patchy and production standards for some titles somewhat low-budget. Arthur Kent (<i>Edgar Wallace MM</i>) was not a house name but a real person. A journalist in the syndication department of the (London) <i>Daily Express</i>, his bestselling opus was the novelization of war movie <i>The Camp on Blood Island</i> (1958), produced quickly for around £50 in collaboration with an <i>Express</i> colleague, Gordon Thomas. Arthur has reported since: "Gordon thought we’d save a few bob by not using an agent—it was a colossal mistake. It sold about a million copies here and a quarter of a million in the States." Arthur had also been an author of Sexton Blake detective novels, one of many <i>EWMM</i> contributors I knew from working earlier on the editorial staff of the <i>SB</i> series at Fleetway. Later, he wrote several Westerns for Robert Hale Ltd. So you could say our career paths crossed at several points. -- Keith ChapmanChap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-7734812420984398412017-01-10T02:23:02.973-05:002017-01-10T02:23:02.973-05:00I particularly liked the lineup in Ellery Queen...I particularly liked the lineup in Ellery Queen's Anthology 1964, The Saint and London Mystery magazines. I didn't know Paul Gallico wrote mystery stories (EQMM, The Roman Kid). I can see from his bibliography that he was both prolific and versatile.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.com