Bill Crider relays news of Byron Preiss's death from injuries sustained in a car accident July 9.
Writer, editor, and publishing entrepeneur Priess put together Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration (1988), wherein twenty-five authors paid tribute with short stories featuring the quintessential detective.
Priess later formed the iBooks imprint under which he reprinted hardboiled classics. Among my favorites were Roger L. Simon's Moses Wine series, Loren D. Estleman's Amos Walker series, and Lawrence Block's first P.I. novel.
Preiss was 52.
No comments:
Post a Comment