{"id":1193,"date":"2013-05-13T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:26:25","slug":"best-of-american-crime-fiction-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2013\/05\/13\/best-of-american-crime-fiction-series\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Best Of American Crime Fiction&#8217; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago I mentioned the PAN <a title=\"Great Western Novels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Westerns\/Westerns.htm\">&#8216;Great Western Novels&#8217; <\/a>series and managed to find five titles. I have now come across titles\u00a0as part of PAN&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;Best Of American Crime Fiction&#8217;<\/span> series but so far have only found\u00a0a few\u00a0labelled as such from <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Erle Stanley Gardner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/esGardner.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Erle Stanley Gardener<\/span><\/a><\/span>, <a title=\"Hillary Waugh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/waugh.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hillary Waugh<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Patricia Highsmith\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%202\/Highsmith.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Patricia Highsmith<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Charles Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/williams.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Charles Williams. <\/span><\/a><\/span>Ed McBain and John D MacDonald are also supposed to be part of the series but none of\u00a0their books that I have state this, they just appear in a list on the back covers of other authors titles.\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1193 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PMHeirs.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PMHeirs-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1196\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1196'>\n\t\t\t\t0330 24146X from 1975\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PMBegger.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PMBegger-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1195\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1195'>\n\t\t\t\t0330 243454 from 1975\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;. and talking of Gardner has anyone any more with this style of cover or any more in the series? I have found &#8216;The Case Of The Blonde Bonanza&#8217; and &#8216;The Case Of The Mischievous Doll&#8217; both listed as having 1975 PAN editions but I&#8217;ve not found an image of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago I mentioned the PAN &#8216;Great Western Novels&#8217; series and managed to find five titles. I have now come across titles\u00a0as part of PAN&#8217;s &#8216;Best Of American Crime Fiction&#8217; series but so far have only found\u00a0a few\u00a0labelled as such from Erle Stanley Gardener, Hillary Waugh, Patricia Highsmith\u00a0and Charles Williams. Ed McBain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}