It’s been less than three months since Part 38 was added to the online Addenda to the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin, and yesterday fifty more pages of corrections and additions were uploaded as Part 39.

   Following the link will lead you to updated information on hundreds of authors and their books, and I hope you do. Much is relatively minor — birth or death dates and settings of novels — but a good deal is more substantial, consisting of biographical data, newly discovered pen names and previously unknown series characters. In a few cases, author entries have undergone a nearly complete overhaul.

   And once again I’m pleased to say that some of data is generated from posts on this blog, and the followup comments. As an example, based on one that was left following Walker Martin’s memoir of Michael Avallone, it has been verified that he wrote the first Nick Carter “Killmaster” novels alone, rather than in tandem with Valerie Moolman, as was previously stated. A movie version of one his tie-in novels has also been identified.

   These are but two small examples of the updating and correcting that’s still going on — Part 40 is already in progress — with input from many sources and contributors. Thanks to all!