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Pulpmeister · 07-31-2020, 11:31 PM

Trawling through on-line newspapers I found a crime short story by James Hilton called "Lives of Men". Hilton (died 1954) is still copyright in L+70 but is PD in Australia.

Meanwhile, I find there is a story called "Lives of Men" by Hilton with an entirely different story, online at an Australian PD website. Absolutely and utterly different, slightly eerie set in the Torres Strait. It turns out that this story is referenced in the International SF Database. The one I found in the newspaper (a crime short story set in London) must have had a different title originally. But what?

There's precedent. "The Perfect Plan", another short story by the same author, I found in a newspaper as "The Perfect Murder."

The problem? There is no easily available on-line list of all of Hilton short stories; in short, no complete bibliography. The Fiction Mags Index lists quite a few, but manifestly not all.

Surely someone must have done a full Hilton bibliography by now. Does anyone know?

07-31-2020, 11:31 PM	#1
Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,825 Karma: 29145056 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	James Hilton Bibliography Trawling through on-line newspapers I found a crime short story by James Hilton called "Lives of Men". Hilton (died 1954) is still copyright in L+70 but is PD in Australia. Meanwhile, I find there is a story called "Lives of Men" by Hilton with an entirely different story, online at an Australian PD website. Absolutely and utterly different, slightly eerie set in the Torres Strait. It turns out that this story is referenced in the International SF Database. The one I found in the newspaper (a crime short story set in London) must have had a different title originally. But what? There's precedent. "The Perfect Plan", another short story by the same author, I found in a newspaper as "The Perfect Murder." The problem? There is no easily available on-line list of all of Hilton short stories; in short, no complete bibliography. The Fiction Mags Index lists quite a few, but manifestly not all. Surely someone must have done a full Hilton bibliography by now. Does anyone know?