Based on law school seminars that Nevins taught for more than 20 years, Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law is a deep dive into law and legal professionals as depicted in popular culture, and how audience understanding of law was shaped by it.

This volume is a follow-up to a previous book by Francis Nevils on Ellery Queen, this time with Nevins hoping to do more justice to Manfred Lee's contributions to the stories.

The Ellery Queen books are named for their protagonist and the pen name used by their authors, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, who wrote 40 books about their character. Nevins knew Dannay and considered him like a grandfather to him, but knew much less about co-author Lee.

The Anthologist's Folly got written up in the Washington Post by Michael Dirda: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
It mentions that the book contains the until-recently hard-to-find story The Hole and the Pit, the only novel by lyricist Adrian Ross.

As always, contact Gavin directly (email address on the book's page) for a discount and the best shipping rates.

Editor Johnny Mains certainly put in the heavy lifting in compiling this volume, which brings together many lost stories. Some of his work has seen wider exposure: one story appeared in Weird Tales, and one was adapted in the 70s as an episode of Night Gallery.

But in his writing he wasn't always unsympathetic to the native people, and some of his stories have a supernatural element where the colonizers come out the worst for ignoring their beliefs and practices.

Cook was a master of supernatural horror, fed by the superstitions of the natives he played a role in subjugating. It should be noted that he was a product of his time, and his stories contain some content many would find objectionable today. His post in Borneo ended due to a native uprising.

Most of Cook's work has only been published once before now. The book contains all his short fiction, except for the possibly-lost tale "The Owl's Warning," from Pep Stories, October 1927.

Oscar Cook spent over a decade of his early adulthood as part of the British colonialist project in Borneo, and the experience marked and shaped both him and his writing for the rest of his life. He wrote memoirs (Borneo: Stealer of Hearts) and 38 short stories, of which 37 appear here.

Lupoff met with Gores to get his permission to write Marblehead, a story in the same vein.

The introduction tells us that, while both Lovecraft's Book and Marblehouse are fictional, Lupoff spoke to several people who had known Lovecraft in life about him. Marblehead was inspired by Joe Gores' Hammett, a fictional action story with real-life author Dashiell Hammett as the hero.

Ramble House founder Fender Tucker wrote an introduction that lays out the history of Marblehead here: www.ramblehouse.com/marbleheadin...
"[...]there is a sort of car chase from Providence to Salem in a classic 320-horsepower SJ Duesenberg at the nerve-wracking speed of 35 mph!"

We don't know the copyright status, he was popular enough though that presumably someone can still publish them? What RH publishes is a companion, it describes the stories but doesn't quote more than short bits.

I am just the social media person, I can ask Fender what he knows though.

The Companion is written as a kind of alphabetical glossary. Many characters, places and titles connected with Carr, both that he wrote and that were written about him and his work, are described. 422 pages with an extensive index.

He's the creator of the detectives Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, Sir Henri Merrivale, and Col. March of the Scotland Yard Department of Queer Complaints (the subject of a British TV mystery series from 1954 where March is played by Boris Karloff -- I've seen some of these).