Uploaded late last week was Part 37 of the Addenda to the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin. In terms of size, it is the longest installment yet, consisting of 84 pages in manuscript form or (for computer buffs) approximately 177K online.

   And of course you’re certainly welcome to stop by and look around. Much of the data consists of the usual: corrections to previous data, added birth and death dates — too many of the latter in recent months, alas — identities behind pen names discovered, settings and series characters added. Even though the closing date of the Bibliography remains fixed at the year 2000, there is no end to the information that keeps coming in.

   The most welcome of the new data is an increased emphasis on biographical information provided for a large number obscure, mostly forgotten writers. Not overwhelmingly so, just enough to remind readers that authors had other parts to their lives as well.

   Here’s an example, beginning with the previous entry for

ÄIDÉ, (Charles) HAMILTON (1826-1906); Born in Paris.

      The Cliff Mystery (Arrowsmith, 1888, hc)
      Morals and Mysteries (Smith, Elder, 1872, hc)
      *-Poet and Peer (Hurst, 1880, hc) Harper, 1880.

          to which has been appended

AIDE, (CHARLES) HAMILTON. Add: moved to England in 1830; educated at Greenwich and University of Bonn, then served in British army until 1857; traveled widely, then lived (and died) in London; multilingual; composed music, painted and wrote poetry and fiction.

   Not all of the authors covered are as obscure, perhaps, as Mr Aide; he was close to the top, alphabetically speaking, that’s all!