Tue 24 Nov 2009
In my comment following Marv Lachman’s review of Nicholas Blake’s Malice in Wonderland, I pointed out that the book had, over the years, been published under four different titles:
1) Malice in Wonderland (Collins)
2) The Summer Camp Mystery (Harper-US)
3) Malice with Murder (Pyramid-US)
4) Murder with Malice (Carroll & Graf-US)
I also wondered whether or not this was a record for the most titles one mystery novel has been published under.
A few days ago I received the email below from British bookseller Jamie Sturgeon. This is not a contest, since while he didn’t quite give the answers, he revealed enough so that anyone with access to Al Hubin’s Crime Fiction IV will be able to discover what he came up with right away. But for the sake of anyone who doesn’t have a handy copy of CFIV or who’d like to give it a try on their own, I’ll wait to reveal all until the first comment to this post.
Hi Steve,
I’ve not managed to come up with a book with five titles but there are two John Creasey Inspector West books that both have four different titles.
Regards,
Jamie
November 24th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
JOHN CREASEY
Find Inspector West (Hodder)
Trouble at Saxby’s (Harper-US)
Doorway of Death (Berkley-US)
Doorway to Death (Lancer-US)
Inspector West Makes Haste (Hodder)
The Gelignite Gang (Harper-US)
Night of the Watchman (Berkley-US)
Murder Makes Haste (Lancer-US)
November 24th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Ah, well, we should have known if it was anyone it would be Creasey.