tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post2075007079435181127..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Open Shadow -- Brad SolomonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-70030351955110039752012-01-09T12:40:07.811-06:002012-01-09T12:40:07.811-06:00Strangely I hadn't looked up the name Brad Sol...Strangely I hadn't looked up the name Brad Solomon on the internet for a long time. I read The Gone Man and The Open Shadow when they came out in paperback. I read a lot of mysteries back then and I thought Solomon had become my new favorite Los Angeles/Chandler fix. Liked him better than Ross McDonald and any other author of the era who tried to follow in those footsteps. And then he was gone with no forwarding address. I looked for him in the S section of mysteries for years. I just watched an old documentary called Stone Reader an=bout a reader's search for a missing author whom he liked very much. Although I never went to the lengths that film maker did, I thought immediately of Brad Solomon when I read the DVD cover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-23174129726479892652010-10-22T20:45:20.529-05:002010-10-22T20:45:20.529-05:00I cry when I think of my A IS FOR ALIBI story, so ...I cry when I think of my A IS FOR ALIBI story, so I won't repeat it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-4613911546414381002010-10-22T20:42:10.367-05:002010-10-22T20:42:10.367-05:00I remember reviewing the hardcover edition of this...I remember reviewing the hardcover edition of this book for the HARTFORD COURANT, and I think you've described it very well.<br /><br />Since my copy was a First Edition, I made sure to save it, thinking that Solomon was sure to become a famous PI writer, but as you say, for whatever reason, he didn't.<br /><br />Nor is the book at all valuable, alas.<br /><br />But it should be!<br /><br />I also saved my First Edition of Sue Grafton's A IS FOR ALIBI. Sometimes I got it right.Steve Lewishttp://www.mysteryfile.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com