Who's Who in Crime Fiction?

"Jim" <jmelsnanospam.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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 > In the 1970s, Taplinger published a series of Who's Who guides to
 > different authors and genres. There's a volume for Shakespeare, for
 > Dickens, for Jane Austen. There are also Who's Whos for Science
 > Fiction, Spy Fiction, and Horror/Fantasy.
 >
 > I'm convinced that there was one for Detective Fiction or Crime
 > Fiction, and yet it never turns up in Bookfinder, nor is there any
 > reference to it on the dustjackets of the ones I have. Does anyone
 > here know anything that could help this collector? TIA...

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Please disregard the following because


a) The linnk isn't to the publishers Own Website as previously stated

b) They published a "Who's Who of Sherlock Holmes" which doesn't
appear on the List

Well according to the list on the folowing websiste
they didn't publish any such title


<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/taplinger_pub_co.html?start_item=181" target="_blank">http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/taplinger_pub_co.html?start_item=181</a>




Which admittedly does look a bit odd.

Unless a similar sounding title has already been issued by another
publisher maybe....


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"michael adams" <mjadams28 DeleteThis @onetel.net.uk> wrote in message news:<2lhrtpFd31baU1 DeleteThis @uni-berlin.de>...

 > Please disregard the following because
 >
 > a) The link isn't to the publishers Own Website as previously stated
 >
 > b) They published a "Who's Who of Sherlock Holmes" which doesn't
 > appear on the List


Thanks anyway for trying--it was still interesting to see. (They also
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 >
 > Please disregard the following because
 >
 > a) The link isn't to the publishers Own Website as previously stated
 >
 > b) They published a "Who's Who of Sherlock Holmes" which doesn't
 > appear on the List


Thanks for the effort--still interesting to see. They don't show the
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"Jim" <jmelsnanospam.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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 > "michael adams" <mjadams28.DeleteThis@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
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 >
  > > Please disregard the following because
  > >
  > > a) The link isn't to the publishers Own Website as previously stated
  > >
  > > b) They published a "Who's Who of Sherlock Holmes" which doesn't
  > > appear on the List
 >
 >
 > Thanks anyway for trying--it was still interesting to see. (They also
 > don't show the Horror/Fantasy Who's Who, which I own.


If you enter "who's who" and "Taplinger" in the LOC search page
using advanced search multiple operators on

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html</a>

you'll get 12 titles. Rather more than on the other site. Although
again not including the one you're looking for unfortunarely.


However if you enter "who's who" and "crime" you'll get 5 titles
one of which is -

Whodunit : a who's who in crime & mystery writing
[edited by] Rosemary Herbert.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


However as that was only published in 2003 - there don't appear to be
any earlier editions and as you appear to be collecting by publisher
anyway, that's not really of much help either, I admit.



atb


michael adams

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