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Old 02-19-2011, 03:19 PM   #204
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She must have been popular enough if she wrote 66 novels with the same lead character ... one a year for about 60 years ... and there was a British television / PBS series based on the books starring Diana Rigg from the late 1990s ... so, some lingering interest and clearly some during the author's lifetime (Ms Mitchell died in 1983).
<blink> I missed the BBC/PBS series with Diana Rigg.

Which makes Mitchell's current mostly out of print status even more mysterious.

Well, the nice thing about ebooks is that it makes it far more economic to keep stuff like this available, so perhaps we'll see more.

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There's a nice summary, btw, of "golden age" mystery writers at this page: http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/boo...y/classic.html
Very nice. Thank you! Added to my resource file.
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