Mr. FD bought FD a fun book some months ago, The History of Mystery by Max Allen Collins, the Iowa mystery writer. The book is one of those very large “coffee table” books, with lots of wonderful images of old pulp magazines, old paperback covers, movie posters, and so on, accompanied by some interesting text by Mr. Collins. Indeed, FD after finishing the book, FD had a new list of old mysteries to investigate, and just finished reading one: a “Miss Silver” mystery by Patricia Wentworth Called Through the Wall. A British cosy from 1950, it was a quick and enjoyable read.
Alas, when FD went out to the web in search of more books by Collector’s Press, all that was found were used copies of various books, but nothing about the press itself. It appears that this is a case of another press gone out of business. Well, as long as there are used bookstores, all is not lost.