tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post6334218823476595121..comments2024-03-18T11:01:42.459-05:00Comments on Pretty Sinister Books: FFB: The Midnight Mystery - Bertram AtkeyJ F Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-55259677187832638882018-12-25T00:22:24.451-06:002018-12-25T00:22:24.451-06:00More Bertram Atkey reviews are coming in 2019. I ...More Bertram Atkey reviews are coming in 2019. I unearthed all of my Atkey books in a reorganization of the “book tomb” in my house. Getting rid of about 25 boxes of junk books and saving the real rarities. I was happy to have discovered I still own a copy of <i>The House of Strange Victims</i>. I thought I had sold it years ago along with <i>The Pyramid of Lead</i>. Last summer I found and bought a cheap reading copy of one of the scarcest Smiler Bunn books: <i>The Man with the Yellow Eyes</i>. That’s next on the Atkey reading list. J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-11902863756537069762018-12-25T00:10:14.051-06:002018-12-25T00:10:14.051-06:00I suggest you look up Philip Atkey’s short story b...I suggest you look up Philip Atkey’s short story bibliography on the FictionMags database. The URL is: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s/s660.htm#A6639J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-11089534817753802142018-12-24T22:23:29.000-06:002018-12-24T22:23:29.000-06:00Thanks for the excellent review, makes me excited ...Thanks for the excellent review, makes me excited to read this one. Read a few of the Smiler Bunn books and the other two Prosper Fair books, this one is next. Atkey is always a fun read, especially the Smiler Bunn short stories.<br /><br />I believe the Midnight Mystery was first published as a serial in Elks Magazine as 'The Mystery of the Axes' starting in issue August 1927. The magazines are free for download :) and have some nice illustrations to go with the story. Not sure if the book form is very different.<br /><br />The Smiler Bunn novel Mystery of the Glass Bullet was also published in Elks Magazine and is free for download, starts in issue January 1931.<br /><br />I would be interested to know which saint magazines have the Bunn and Prosper Fair stories?<br />Rich Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195012948773997877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-33657107211163137492018-08-16T23:05:35.239-05:002018-08-16T23:05:35.239-05:00Sometimes I'm truly surprised when a book I ma...Sometimes I'm truly surprised when a book I manage to find so easily (I have two copies!) turns out to be genuinely rare. At one time a while ago this book was available at the Internet Archive and Hathi Digital Trust, but it's been since removed. Too bad because I was delighted with this entertainingly offbeat and quaintly old-fashioned detective novel and I wish more people could read it and discover how fun a book it is. I've read THE PYRAMID OF LEAD also several years ago then sold my copy. That was enjoyable as well, but MIDNIGHT MYSTERY is much better in so many ways. Hope you might be able to find either of them sometime.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-54761385768779863032018-08-16T22:40:48.851-05:002018-08-16T22:40:48.851-05:00Thanks for your review, I smiled through all of it...Thanks for your review, I smiled through all of it. And rare is right. I could not locate a public library system with this one in its collection. Elgin Bleeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417587392887691664noreply@blogger.com