{"id":17606,"date":"2025-09-29T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17606"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:16:35","slug":"from-the-bookseller-archives-peyton-place-and-the-encyclopedia-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/09\/29\/from-the-bookseller-archives-peyton-place-and-the-encyclopedia-of-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"From ‘The Bookseller’ Archives, ‘Peyton Place’ and the ‘Encyclopedia of Murder’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been going through back copies of<\/span> ‘The Bookseller’<\/span> <\/strong>and have found several references to PAN Books, some of which I’ve used before, but also quite a few new ones. I’ve selected some including one about a problem with the initial launch in 1947 which I’ve put<\/span> HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.. Others mention the launch of the<\/span> PAN\/Ballantine War Series<\/span><\/strong><\/a> on sale at ‘Fags and Mags’ and the\u00a0<\/span> ‘International PAN Time’<\/span><\/strong><\/a> while another refers to a ‘Diamonds Are Forever’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> competition where PAN books could be won. Several of the other clipping refers to specific books which I’ll be adding to their pages over time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I’ve come across a PAN edition of ‘Peyton Place’<\/strong><\/em><\/span> I’ve not seen before but unfortunately it is in Turkey. I started a conversation with the seller but it has since gone quiet so all I have is a photo of the cover<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span> and not even a date. I may try and restart it but as $30 for postage was mentioned I’m not too sure. I’ve tacked it onto the end of my Grace Matalious page HERE<\/strong><\/a> as I think it is later than all the ones I have now. If any one has a spare copy and or could let me have a scan of the front and back covers plus the date then please email. This reminds me I’m still trying to find a 1972 copy of ‘Peyton Place’<\/strong><\/em> <\/a><\/span>as well.
UPDATE I think I have found a copy of Peyton Place<\/span><\/strong><\/em> from 1978 and it is in the post.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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As I have mentioned I am part of group working to reopen a disused railway track as a Greenway for which we need the occasional fund raiser.\u00a0 Recently we had a very interesting and informative talk on ‘The Great Train Robbery’ by Steve Geale. As he then went on to talk about local murderers this brought to mind a book I read a longtime ago which was PAN E1 ‘Encyclopedia of Murder’<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Colin Wilson and Pat Pitman from 1964. This was republished in 1984 followed up by ‘Encyclopedia of Modern Murder’<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Colin Wilson and this time Donald Seaman in 1986.\u00a0 In my 1964 edition there has an erratum slip as above but I’ve compared the text in both the 1964 and 1984 editions and it seems to be the same?<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been going through back copies of ‘The Bookseller’ and have found several references to PAN Books, some of which I’ve used before, but also quite a few new ones. I’ve selected some including one about a problem with the initial launch in 1947 which I’ve put HERE.. Others mention the launch of the […]<\/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\/17606"}],"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=17606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}