Talk:Michael Gilbert

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	I wrote 99% of this article at Wikipedia. I have expanded it greatly for this article and intend to add substantially more material.
	Hayford Peirce 13:24, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

Great entry

Really enjoyed your entry on Gilbert -- I've enjoyed his mysteries for many years. I still recall the cover of the old 35 cent paperback of Smallbone Deceased, with the poor fellow all crumpled up in his file drawer. Wish we could get that, or some other illustration we could legally use, to illustrate the entry! Russell Potter 22:08, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

I think that may be the edition I have. I will definitely scan it. So far I have been unable to figure out the mysteries of inserting images into CZ articles. Probably it isn't any harder than Wikipedia, but the BS involved is a little different. Stay tuned! Hayford Peirce 23:25, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Rats! I have a 1961 British paperback edition but it isn't the one with the cover you mention. I've seen it elsewhere, however. I think I'll upload mine, in any case, and let someone else correct my copyright issue mistakes. Hayford Peirce 15:48, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

Request for help in getting permission for the image

Could anyone help in trying to get permission from the original publisher of this image? The publisher is Hodder & Stoughton, in London, England, and is an old, large publisher that is still in business as far as I know. This particular image was scanned from the cover of their book "Smallbone Deceased", by Michael Gilbert, published as a paperback in 1961 (there have been many other editions). Thank you for any help you can offer! ...said Hayford Peirce (talk) (Please sign your talk page posts by simply adding four tildes, ~~~~.)

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Here is the exact page at Hodder for requesting permission by email: http://hodderheadline.co.uk/permissions.asp

Some further info needed from the actual book is

• Whether the book cover is credited to another source besides Hodder (info should be on inside book cover)
• Exact ISBN, Title and author of the book

Also, is this book cover ALL the requests that will be made from this publisher? (Best to make them all at once).

---Stephen Ewen

Correction

Presumably, you aren't claiming here that Hercule P. and Nero W. are Gilbert's characters (They aren't), I'm making a change in the structure of that sentence to clarify. It currently reads as if you were making that claim. Roger A. Lohmann (talk) 12:48, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Oh my goodness! I must have seriously misread my sentence structure! Thanks! Hayford Peirce (talk) 17:02, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

I thought not! I hope the correction is satisfactory. Roger A. Lohmann (talk) 17:05, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

I THINK it could be argued, but I do see your viewpoint. I'm surprised that the characters at Wikipedia didn't pick up on it also -- but I changed it over there also.... Hayford Peirce (talk) 17:08, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

A suggestion: note his importance and reputation as a writer sooner?

I think the article would benefit from the reader being told right near the top, or at the beginning, that he won awards and was "highly acclaimed". If a reader like me, initially knowing nothing about Gilbert, comes along, you want to let them know right away that there is something worth finding out about down below. One possibility would be to swap the location of the section on his life-bio with that on his awards and acclaims (moving this right up under the intro). This problem is even worse over the current Wikipedia version, which opens with a single sentence so understated that one wonders why anyone would write about this author at all. Pat Palmer (talk) 21:27, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

PS - Aside from how many works he wrote, how popular were they and are they? How widely sold/read--can one guesstimate? Are they still in print in 2020? Etc.Pat Palmer (talk) 21:29, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. You're undoubtedly correct. I MAY have had that info in my original WP article, but it got so hacked and chopped by the vandals and cretins that I may have lost track of some of the priorities. I'll take a careful look.... Hayford Peirce (talk) 21:32, 10 September 2020 (UTC)