{"id":2056,"date":"2015-05-30T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2019-10-07T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:32:52","slug":"traditional-crime-authors-still-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/traditional-crime-authors-still-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional crime authors still collected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May this year I noticed that the books sold in the Scorpion Press series of signed limiteds were mainly by the stalwarts of crime writing.\u00a0 The American James Lee Burke and Ruth Rendell and a lovely anthology.\u00a0 One of my customers collects fine bindings and anthologies, having all the ones we issued except the very first one from 1992 which had a host of superb names in British crime writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2060\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep copy\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-250x341.jpg 250w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-26x36.jpg 26w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-66x90.jpg 66w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy-23x32.jpg 23w, https:\/\/secure.scorpionpress.org.uk\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Keating-The-Man-Who-titlep-copy.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Man Who &#8230;<\/em> was a specially commissioned collection of short stories edited by the late H R F Keating.\u00a0 It was a book like no other in the sense that its contributors spanned half a century of crime writing.\u00a0 Eric Ambler was famous for his pre-war spy thrillers and Len Deighton was famous for his Cold War spy fiction;\u00a0 then you have Michael Gilbert who wrote just after the war with numerous whodunits, and again the 50s Michael Underwood gave us tricky legal cases; later in the 70s to the recent period Simon Brett, Peter Lovesey and Reginald Hill gave us some of the finest crime with irony and humour; Antonia Fraser, the historian is also a noted crime writer with a female detective. Then of course, we have the queens of crime &#8211; P D James and Ruth Rendell.\u00a0 Harry Keating himself wrote a story.\u00a0 They all paid homage to Julian Symons (author of many books with &#8220;The Man who&#8230; &#8221; title).\u00a0 It was a terrific collection in an exceptional alum tawned goat binding and special box.<\/p>\n<p>Another customer picked out a Ruth Rendell and another his missing James Lee Burke&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May this year I noticed that the books sold in the Scorpion Press series of signed limiteds were mainly by the stalwarts of crime writing.\u00a0 The American James Lee Burke and Ruth Rendell and a lovely anthology.\u00a0 One of my customers collects fine bindings &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[242,55,68,102,241],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-eric-amber","tag-james-lee-burke","tag-len-deighton","tag-ruth-rendell","tag-scorpion-press"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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