Tom Jackson notified us about a post he wrote on the Sandusky Register about the mystery behind a mystery book written by a science fiction novelist.
Roger Zelazny was a popular, award-winner writer of science fiction who died in 1995. Fast forward 13 years to a literary agent's warehouse in New York City where a cardboard box with the notation "Save - No submissions at this time at Roger's request" is found. Inside is an untitled manuscript, though "The Dead Man's Brother" is written on every page. Thinking it was a draft, or possibly an earlier version of a published novel, it was set aside to be looked at later. When read by the author's literary agent, he discovered the book wasn't a fragment or otherwise incomplete, and most surprisingly, wasn't science fiction, but, as Publishers Weekly subsequently wrote in their review, a "fantastic and compelling hard-boiled mystery," written in 1971.
Jackson has penned a fascinating article on the backstory to the book's recent publication by Hard Case Crime (see the book cover above, right), and we thank him for letting us (and our readers) know about it.
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