Pegasus Books
Claiborne Hancock Publisher and Editor in Chief of Pegasus has been putting together quite a list for crime fiction fans. Claiborne was kind of enough to send your reporter the current catalogue and here are some of the roster he’s put together. Pegasus has a Wall Street address a few doors down from where this correspondent toiled as a teenager. I was a map clerk. I was an insurance investigator ( “put down that original Utrillo, Mrs. Grimes, and we’ll all go home happy.”)
Anyway: among the authors on the Pegasus list we have John Shannon, Martyn Waites, and Charlie Stella. John Shannon’s Jack Liffey series set in Los Angeles is well worth your time. John’s latest is THE CRACKED EARTH. I believe this is the ninth novel in the series.
Martyn Waites garnered praise for THE MERCY SEAT. His latest is scheduled for US release in the next few months. I’ll have more info once the press arrives. Charlie Stella’s latest is titled SHAKEDOWN. Also on the Pegasus list is Parnell Hall’s HITMAN.
This is by no means comprehensive. Pegasus Books US has other books on offer, including one on Samuel Beckett.
January 8th, 2007 at 2:37 am
They are also publishing a ‘Best of’ Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Block! Paretsky! Westlake! Estleman!) and repubbing HP Lovecraft’s essays. (Not the stories, mind you; the essays.)
Repubbing ALL of RE Howard’s “Conan” stories? A James Joyce “Dubliners” tribute volume? “The Private Diary of Catherine Denueve”?
That sucking sound is dollars flying out of my wallet and into the cash drawer of Pegasus. These guys are beyond cool–thank you so much for drawing them to my attention!
These guys should start a book club.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Yeah, this is a good catalogue. Pegasus is reissuing Cornell Woolrich THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.
January 8th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Thanks for the kind mention. I’m looking forward to the Beckett tribute, too, but I might just pass on Deneuve. (PS. the Cracked Earth was the second Jack Liffey book. They’re reissuing the old ones in trade paper, one-by-one. The Dark Streets is the new one, No. 9, due any minute.)
January 8th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
John, thanks for the correction and congratulations on the paperback deal.