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Originally Posted by djulian
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct is a personal favorite, of which all of the 54 novels are available in e-book format except for three. One of these (And All Through the House), I understand, as it's a novella and less well-known. The other two (Doll and Mischief) are just normal novels in the series.
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Like you, these two omissions frustrate me. I do have a decent scan of
And All Through the House, though without the pictures from the original edition.
Another one is book 8 of 16 in Westlake's Dortmunder series (
Don't Ask). All the rest are available, and books 6-13 were all published originally by Mysterious Press, and they seem to have a good relationship with OpenRoad for ebooks. OpenRoad was responsible for the first 7 ebooks of the series, and 9 and beyond seem to be from GrandCentral, so I can't see how book 8 isn't covered by at least one of these companies.
Also, books 7-9 (out of 22) of Jack Higgins' Sean Dillon series aren't available. This makes some sense, though, as he moved around publishers quite a bit in the early days, and those 3 could have been lost to some company that no longer exists.
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! is the only one of the 12 books in the series not available.
Not as few missing, but 10 of the 24 Dirk Pitt books aren't available as ebooks. This omission is also very strange, since you'd think whoever holds the rights would be hurrying to get those sales.
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Originally Posted by barryem
I just bought a paper Frank Yerby book and a paper Frank G. Slaughter book, both favorites of my youth.
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I have dozen of Slaughter's medical and "thriller" books in paper, but the only ebooks of his are a couple of the Biblical ones.