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Burning Questions
Wondering what happened to your favorite author? Gosh, so are we. Ask away: Send your cards and letters to Burning Questions, 2143 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. Or better yet, send us e-mail. When you write, please include your full name and the city and state where you live. Sadly, personal replies are not possible. And if your question is too hard, we'll simply put it in our big file labeled "We dunno."
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TWO PLUS TWO
Dear Burning Questions,
Diana Stone
This talented Scottish author has indeed written two other series. In the first, a comic trilogy that sounds oddly hilarious, McCall Smith follows the misadventures of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. In the second, the Scotland Street series, McCall Smith chronicles the wacky goings-on at an Edinburgh boarding house. Though McCall Smith is best known for the Botswana mysteries of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, we hope you'll be inspired to investigate these lesser-known jewels.
HELM, MATT HELM Dear Burning Questions, Matt Helm starred as "America's James Bond" in a series of original paperback thrillers in the 1960s and '70s by Donald Hamilton. How many Helm novels did Hamilton write?
Ron Schwartz
According to our best count, there were 27 Matt Helm novels published—published being the operative word here, because according to Hamilton's editor there is still one Matt Helm novel waiting to come in from the cold. Perhaps once the new Matt Helm movie (currently in pre-production at Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks studio) arrives on the big screen, popular demand will at last bring this final Helm novel into print. In the meantime, fans can enjoy another Hamilton novel in January, when Night Walker is brought back to print for the first time in 30 years by Hard Case Crime publishers—a great introduction to his particular, pulp-noirish vision. One final question: how does Matt Helm drink his martinis?
PROLIFIC PARKER Dear Burning Questions, Can you tell me if Robert B. Parker has any plans for more in the Jesse Stone series? I've enjoyed Death in Paradise and Stone Cold.
Margaret Adams
Police Chief Jesse Stone returns in Sea Change, due out February 7. In addition, Parker's publisher tells us to expect a new Sunny Randall novel from Parker in June, as well as a Spenser mystery in the fall.
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