[PW] Re: Carson Stroud book

[Dennis Lien]

Nothing in the 2006 CANADIAN BOOKS IN PRINT and nothing in AMICUS,
the online union catalog of Canadian library holdings:

http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm

I also searched as STEELJACKET (one word) and as STEEL-JACKET
(hyphenated).  There is a novel called STEEL-JACKET by Merle
Constiner (Ace pb, 1972), but I gather Constiner is a real
person (and not a pseudonym for Stroud) and he seems to mostly
write westerns.

When I search Stroud's titles in WorldCat and sort by date, nothing
shows a first publication between 1996 and 2001.

If it appeared in just one list in one book, I'd feel 98% sure it was
a ghost title -- intended but never published for some reason.  Seeing
it in two lists is more surprising, but that's still the most likely
explanation.  (Pyramid pb editions of several of Harlan Ellison books
in the 1980s (?) listed two or three ghost titles that he'd intended to
write but never got to, for instance.)

Or possibly it's a magazine serial or an unpublished TV/movie script or
the like that exists but was never published in book form (unlikely
but conceivable).

You might ask at the Carsten Stroud Message Board at

http://www.allreaders.com/Board.asp?BoardID=7097

though it doesn't seem to be very active.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu



At 02:47 PM 9/6/2006, 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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