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Black Friday Special: The Strand Magazine’s Issue 61 PLUS a One Year Subscription (5 Issues), Great Author Post/Notecards

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“For a quarter of a century, The Strand has not only been bringing fabulous contemporary mystery and thriller stories to readers—but it has also managed, on an astonishingly regular basis, to dig up unpublished and long-lost stories by the titans of the past, including James M. Cain, Shirley Jackson, Raymond Chandler…”
—Douglas Preston (New York Times Bestselling author)

Black Friday Special: The Strand Magazine’s Issue 61 PLUS a One Year Subscription (5 Issues), Great Author Post/Notecards

Strand Magazine: Unpublished Raymond Chandler and the first US appearance of Christmas Adventure by Agatha Christie, also fiction by John Floyd, David Marcum, Rob Witherspoon and an exclusive interview with James Lee Burke.

We’re proud to present an unpublished Raymond Chandler in the latest issue of the Strand. Professor Sarah Trott provides an introduction which looks at the biographical context of this gem. Before achieving fame as an author, Chandler was a career oil executive who worked for the Dabney Oil Syndicate for about a decade until he was fired at the age of forty-four. “Advice to an Employer” shows a different side to Raymond Chandler. The wry humor is there, but the piece also reveals a silly, fun side to an author long associated with novels about the seamy side of LA.

We are also pleased to share a story featuring a certain little Belgian detective with a waxed moustache and egg-shaped head, who finds himself far away from the comforts of his usual London life, celebrating an old-fashioned family Christmas in the English countryside. Agatha Christie’s “Christmas Adventure,” originally published in the UK in 1923, was decades later expanded into the much longer short story many readers are familiar with. This is the first time Christie’s shorter version has appeared in publication in the US. The original version is just as fun as the expanded one, complete with sprawling mansion, house-party of young people, and an unlikely trinket in the pudding. This fall, HarperCollins will release “Christmas Adventure” in Midwinter Murder an anthology of Christie’s short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Our humorous theme continues with John Floyd’s “The Ironwood File,” in which a sleazy boss gets the tables turned on him from an unlikely source. Meanwhile, Rob Witherspoon’s “Le Morte d’Author” shows that even the personification of death has a witty side. We round off the fiction this issue with the Great Detective and his loyal sidekick solving a medical mystery involving one of Watson’s patients in David Marcum’s “The Triangle of Death.”

We have an interview with the incomparable James Lee Burke, creator of the equally incomparable Dave Robicheaux. Burke himself is every bit as interesting as his creation and spoke about his favorite Western films, the creative process behind his works and the state of the world we live in.

Also in this issue, we have the scoop on the nominees for The Strand Critics Awards. The nominees for Best Debut and Best Novel are a varied bunch, chosen by critics from CNN, NPR, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, LA Times, and USA Today. This year’s Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Awards go to the trailblazing Tess Gerritsen and the always innovative Walter Mosley. And as usual our skilled staff of book reviewers spotlights the latest mystery and thriller novels.

Great Authors Postcards, Conrad, Austen, Wells, Shakespeare, Bronte, & Dickens

Set 0f six postcards with art designed by the award-winning team of the Strand Collection, with postcards celebrating A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

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5×7 Glossy Front.

 

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7 reviews for Black Friday Special: The Strand Magazine’s Issue 61 PLUS a One Year Subscription (5 Issues), Great Author Post/Notecards

  1. Maria Atassi

    A fine magazine, somewhat with the feel of a slick magazine from a long ago era. I love the unpublished works. They published two colorful pieces by John Steinbeck and John Steinbeck even when he’s bad is good!

  2. hank hagenau

    I am 78 years old and avid reader and have been ever since I learned to read. My parents started me off right

    Recently I heard about the John Steinbeck story in the July-November issue of Strand Magazine. Fortunately for me a not so local book store had the Strand on the shelf.

    Today there is so much reading you can do using electronic devises but nothing, absolutely nothing beats a ‘real’ book or a good literary magazine. Imagine you’re in your favorite chair, a cup of coffee close at hand – the cat jumps – the coffee spills. Would you rather spill it on your device or your old friend, a book.

    Ah-hhh, feel the paper, listen to the sound made when turning a page, Sheer heaven.

    The Strand has introduced me to new authors with great stories to tell.

  3. Ashley Goldberg

    A like this magazine, but I wish the interviews were longer. I know the style is to publish a short interview and a long intro. But in this age of podcasts, I’d like something longer than 5 pages.

  4. Sam Burns

    The age we live means we don’t have many fiction magazine. It’s nice to see one out there that looks slick and polished. I am a big Raymond Chandler fan and these folks published three works of his. When they get to publishing literary fiction, I am not as big of a fan.

  5. Bob Schneider

    I like the magazine, but I wish there were less ads in it. All in all, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Hemingway and Louisa May Alcott means they are doing something right.

  6. Linda Robert

    Colorful with fine art. Kind of resembles a coffee table magazine. I love the interviews and the book reviews. I am tired of just going into a bookstore and trying my luck with books that can be a big disappointment.

  7. Al Weiss

    Colorful with fine art. Kind of resembles a coffee table magazine. I love the interviews and the book reviews. I am tired of just going into a bookstore and trying my luck with books that can be a big disappointment.

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