Quick note after reading the latest entries on your blog. Very sorry to hear about Joe Hensley’s death; he was a gentleman and a very good writer.

   On the positive news side, I was pleased to see The Compleat T. Arthur Plummer. Obscure he certainly was, but obscure is my meat, as you know, and I have and have enjoyed several of his novels. Thought you might like to add the enclosed FE jacket scan of one of his earliest and scarcest titles, Haunting Lights (1932), which has typically wonderful U.K. period artwork.

  Bill:

   Thanks for the Plummer cover. It’s a nice piece of work, all right. For a long time, when I was younger, I didn’t bother with British detective fiction like this. Whatever I came across, I quickly turned over and passed along to someone else. Foolish me.

   I met Joe Hensley once at a Pulpcon, not as I recall when he was a guest of honor, but I believe last year, when he came as an ordinary attendee. He was a very nice, outwardly gentle man, but I got the strong impression that as an attorney, he knew what he was doing and could be tough when it counted. I’d certainly have liked to have him on my side, if ever I needed a good lawyer.