{"id":16724,"date":"2025-01-13T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=16724"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:47:19","slug":"christie-update-steve-holland-and-penguin-collector-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/01\/13\/christie-update-steve-holland-and-penguin-collector-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Update, Steve Holland and Penguin Collector 102"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve mentioned Martin Baker’s covers for Fontana Agatha Christie titles before, well now they have appeared in an article by David Morris on his excellent\u00a0 ‘Collecting Christie’<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>website. He includes a very interesting interview with Martin which gives a lot of background to the ‘foxtail’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> series. When asked, I was more than happy for David to use the scans off my page as it includes a plug for the site. It also shows I do go off at a tangent away from PAN very occasionally if I like the artwork. I heard from Martin to say he is not happy that other publishers use his artwork without permission such as there two on the right, one of which is a Bosnian version of “Cat Among the Pigeons”<\/span><\/strong><\/em> while the other is more a possible homage on an Italian edition of ‘Macabro Quiz’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> by Oliviero Berni.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>A couple of titles I have on my shelves are ‘Beyond the Void’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and ‘Dreaming of Utopia’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> both by Steve Holland of Bear Alley Books<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>and well worth a read. They both contain examples of PAN book covers with ‘Utopia’ featuring four by Reina Mary Sington and ‘Void’ also has four but by Henry Fox.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>In Penguin Collector 102 Peter Miller states in his article that there are\u00a0 ‘Too Few Murders in Penguin’<\/span><\/strong> pointing out how some prolific crime writers were well served by other publishers but not by Penguin. One example was Arthur Upfield<\/span><\/strong><\/a> where PAN published and reprinted many more of his titles than did Penguin. Peter has managed to include the cover of\u00a0 PAN 441 ‘Cake in a Hat Box’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Rex Archer but he said space precluded more.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned Martin Baker’s covers for Fontana Agatha Christie titles before, well now they have appeared in an article by David Morris on his excellent\u00a0 ‘Collecting Christie’ website. He includes a very interesting interview with Martin which gives a lot of background to the ‘foxtail’ series. When asked, I was more than happy for David […]<\/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\/16724"}],"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=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}