[PW] Re: Carson Stroud book

[Karen Weiss]

You might want to change the spelling of the author's name to Carsten 
Stroud.  Even so I found no information on Steel Jacket in the LC 
catalog or Copyright Office listing.  I also checked the National 
Library of Canada.

Karen Weiss

On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:47 PM, NancyJo wrote:

> I hope someone can help us solve this mystery.  Inside 2 of Carson 
> Stroud's
> books,  CUBA STRAIT and COBRAVILLE (both published by Simon and 
> Schuster)
> there is a list of other titles by him. One of those titles is STEEL 
> JACKET.
> A patron has asked us for it. We cannot find evidence of it's existence
> anywhere. We've search in print Contemporary Authors, Biography Index 
> and
> anything in our author section of reference. Online, we've searched 
> World
> Cat, Amazon US, UK and CA, out-of-print resources, Simonsays.com 
> including
> Stroud's page, and everywhere else we can think of.
>
> Stroud is Canadian. Maybe a Canadian on the list has resources we 
> aren't
> able to check?  I wondered if it wasn't an alternative title, but all 
> the
> other titles I can find of his are also listed on that same page, so 
> it's
> not an alternative title for anything on Amazon or anywhere else.  I 
> did
> find that BLACK MOON is an alt. title for CUBA STRAIT, but that's all.
>
> The titles are listed in chronological order. The title written just 
> before
> STEEL JACKET is DEADLY FORCE, 1996. The one just after is BLACK WATER
> TRANSIT, 2001. So one might presume it was written between 1996 and 
> 2001.
> (Didn't CBI cease publication in 1999? I suppose if someone has any 
> years
> from 1996 on and would be willing to check, that might bear fruit.)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Nancy Jo Leachman
> Head of Reference
> Salina Public Library
> Salina, KS
> nancyjo at salpublib.org
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