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Authorship - Beryl's Involvement - Part 1Involvement on Black Thumb & Invisible Enemy |
| Date | From | To | Vol | Re | Quotes |
| 10/18/1949 | Hugh Juergens (G&D) | Sam Epstein | 3 | Humorous DJ #3 image apology | "Anne
Hagen showed me your letter of the 16th and it leaves me feeling low in my
mind
. Everything you say in your letter about the scene being
contrived, illogical, out of key, abrupt, inartistic, etc., I am sure is
correct. We are entirely willing to expunge, delete, suppress,
quash, efface, obliterate, squelch, cancel, remove, scuttle, and lay the
axe to this material and return the manuscript to its excellent pristine
form" |
| 10/20/1949 | Sam Epstein | Hugh Juergens (G&D) | 3 | Humorous reply & Correction " So Beryl and I did it" | "Got you
very nice letter -- nice although there were some things in it that are,
shall we say, exaggerated a mite?"
... " Neither of the two choices you gave me seemed a good solution" "So I was faced with the only alternative left--keying in a new scene into the book. Also faced with the grand pappy of all colds --- I still am at 2:00AM). So Beryl and I did it" . |
| 9/12/1957 | Sam Epstein | Anne Hagan (G&D) | 14 | Telltale Figerprints- Phantom title- Initial package | "The Mystery of the Tell-Tale Fingerprints"
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The reason the title must stand as is, or at least say the same thing, is that the plot is fairly well worked out. The impossible fingerprints are Sandy's, and they involve him in a crime which, naturally, he didn't commit" |
| 7/2/1958 | Sam Epstein | Anne Hagan (G&D) | 14 | #14 "Invisible Enemy" submittal letter | "At last
the Stinker is finished, and were it not for Beryl picking up the bits and
pieces it never would have gotten completed. The original idea
simply didn't work so we went along working out a new one bit by
bit."
Enclosed is a list of chapter titles and also suggestions for a jacket and for six additional illustrations." |
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Last Revision: September 23, 2006 03:16 PM