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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Liquid Death and other Stories by John Russell Fearn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | By 1939, Fearn was expressing to friends his liking for crime mysteries, in preference to sf writing, but commercial exigencies dictated that, as a full time writer, he had to continue to concentrate more on science fiction during the early years of the war. |
 | | Fearn was a great fan of Carr's work, and his own crime stories contain similar ingredients: a horrifying and baffling murder, locked rooms, and cerebral detection employing both scientific methods and psychological insights into the criminal mind, with a liberal sprinkling of dry humour. |
 | | Fearn of the considerable sums I would have paid her back in 1970 for all of the additional sf mss, whilst as her literary agent I could have also tried to place the additional western and detective material with other publishers. |
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