Here’s some good news to start the new year, via Atomic Pulp. Max Allan Collins’ Nolan series of Parker pastiches is coming back into print.
The first two are already in print, as Two for the Money, from Hard Case Crime. The other six have been hard to find for awhile, but will be out at some point this year from Perfect Crime Books, who also reprinted the entries in MAC’s Quarry series that aren’t available from Hard Case Crime.
Golly gee, I’ve got a lot of reading ahead of me in the next few months. I just got the lost Donald Westlake novel, The Comedy is Finished, and I just ordered the second volume of Sand novels from Ramble House. (MAC mentioned in the comments at this post that Sand was also an influence on the Nolan series.) More to come on all of that. For now, time to stop typing and get to reading.
Here’s more on Nolan from co-blogger Nick and Max Allan Collins at Nick’s other site.
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Good to see Lee Van Cleef again as well: http://bit.ly/wSSkNT.
First that problem with The Man with Getaway Face reprint and now this. Nothing gets past you, does it, Stroby? ;)
All those years in newspapers ruined me for civilian life.
Hard Case’s Bruce Willis styled cover was a nice thought for current casting. The funny thing is that these illustrations made The photo look more like the older, more famous Lee van Cleef. BTW Nolan is supposed the look like the actor, it’s mentioned in the books.
Yep, that illustration is based on the great Lee Van Cleef.
In the novels, the character is described as resembling the late actor, and Max Collins even once showed Van Cleef and his wife some of the Pinnacle paperbacks where the character was painted that way on the covers (according to Max, Van Cleef was unimpressed, but his wife found it very amusing). When I received the assignment to design these covers for Perfect Crime Books, I thought it fitting to place the character – as described in the stories – prominently on the covers as a unifying element, and also thought it appropriate to base it on a Van Cleef publicity shot.
Max agreed. So….
All six of these Nolans are available now at Amazon and at our book store. It will probably take a while for them to show up at other venues. Official publication date is May 15. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for the info! When will Kindle and other e-book versions be available?
I am glad these books are being reprinted–sheesh! It’s about time! Also, a slew of Dan J. Marlowe’s Earl Drake books are available on Kindle. Here’s the weird thing–if you type just Dan Marlowe in the Kindle page search field all of the titles available will pop up. But if you type Dan J. Marlowe, only about half of them pop up. Pretty dumb, huh?