Douglas G. Greene and Mysteries Unlocked
Ed here: This is an excerpt from the very cool website The Passing Tramp. Doug Greene is not only a wonderful publisher, he's one of the brightest, nicest people in the
mystery world. For the whole piece go here:
http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/
Today
is the seventieth birthday of Douglas G. Greene, the great American
crime fiction scholar who, among his many other accomplishments, published the
seminal John Dickson Carrbiography, John Dickson Carr:
The Man Who Explained Miracles (1995) and founded the mystery
short fiction publishing house Crippen & Landru.
Over
2013 and 2014 I happily was able to shepherd into print Mysteries
Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene, a collection of two
dozen essays on detective fiction, in honor of Doug and his important work,
published by McFarland Press.
Going
by order of appearance in the book, there are essays by Bill Ruehlmann,
Mike Ashley, Roger Ellis, Curtis Evans, Michael Dirda, John Curran, Martin
Edwards, B. A. Pike, Julia Jones, David Whittle, Mauro Boncompagni, Steven
Steinbock, Henrique Valle, Jeffrey Marks, Jack Seabrook, Tom Nolan, Marv
Lachman, Jon L. Breen, Sergio Angelini, Joseph Goodrich, Helen Szamuely,
Patrick Ohl and Peter Lovesey (there are also an
afterword by Boonchai Panjarattanakorn, a prologue by Steve
Steinbock and an introduction by myself).
The
essays cover a broad range of crime fiction authors (and critics) from over a
century, including Thomas W. Hanshew, Max Rittenberg, J. S. Fletcher,
Carolyn Wells, John Dickson Carr (of course), Doug
Greene himself, Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley, Margery
Allingham, Edmund Crispin, Patrick Quentin, Hake Talbot, T. S. Eliot, Fernando
Pessoa, Raymond Chandler, Craig Rice, Fredric Brown, Ross Macdonald, Ellery
Queen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Horowitz, Jill Paton
Walsh, P. D. James and Rene Reouven.
Doug's work over the decades has illustrated the richness of
crime fiction from the gaslight era to the present time.
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