Michael Z. Lewin
 The first edition of the first Albert Samson novel: exciting stuff, at least for me. I never did know who the girl on the cover was.  But the face on the cover of this UK hardcover was a then-PA who went on to be a senior fiction editor with Macmillan.  Not all the editions of the Samson books seem to have much gravitas.  The second book was inspired by the story of a real-life Vietnamese veteran.  Can you tell that this is partly set in Kokomo, where my mother grew up?  This is the US first edition.  This too is the cover of the US first edition. Much of the book is set in Brown County in southern Indiana though it also has a scene or two in Muncie.  OUT OF SEASON was called OUT OF TIME in the UK. But not many British readers would recognize Indianapolis by its palm trees.  This is the US first edition. |
ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION, THE WAY WE DIE NOW, THE ENEMIES WITHIN, THE SILENT SALESMAN, MISSING WOMAN, OUT OF SEASON, CALLED BY A PANTHERThe character, Albert Samson, was in fact born in Los Angeles in 1969. I was visiting my mother - showing off my first child - and my then-wife and I rapidly ran out of the things we could do for free. My mother and my wife liked mysteries, so I decided to write a humorous little story to entertain them. The story didn't get finished during the visit, so when my wife and I and little Liz returned to our apartment in New York I carried on with it. And gradually that story grew into ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION. Not entirely humorous and not so short. |
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