> On 30 Jul 96 Jan Murphy said this about that to Helen Fleischer:
 >
 >  HF>> Ran out of Tey for sure, not to mention Crispin and
 > Allingham.
 >
 >  JM> For some reason, I still haven't gotten into Crispin
 > and Allingham.
 >
 >      Jan did you just not care for Crispin, or are you having
 > trouble
 > finding them?  AFAIK, just about everything of his is O/P
 > (AGAIN!).
 
No, Crispin is on the 'just haven't gotten around to looking for them' list.  
Thanks for the information -- I'll be on the lookout now.
 
Speaking of stuff being out of print, this is probably a good opportunity to 
remind people that books, at least in the US, have a shorter and shorter 
'shelf life' these days.  Publishing decisions are being made more and more 
on the basis of what-sells-quickly rather than what is good.  Of course you 
know this already, Sam, but maybe others don't realize that some paperbacks 
can go out of print in as little as 90 days, and the publisher isn't always 
ready to reprint them when they do.  So I encourage anyone who has a 
'favorite' author to 1) buy their books NEW whenever possible -- at least in 
the US, it doesn't benefit the author one bit if you just read their book at 
the library and 2) don't wait around when you see a new paperback come out, 
since there is no guarantee it will be around tomorrow.  Buy it before it 
disappears, and buy it early so the bookstore will have a chance to reorder 
it before it goes out of print.
 
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