One of his later books, WARLOCK, is a good mix of spy novel and esp elements.Īt least one of his science fiction novels, DIMENSION X, is a first class mixture of the mystery and SF genres. Tucker had a solid career writing mystery suspense and science fiction. The first edition is rather pricey, by which I mean in the $50 and up range. If you’d like to pick up a cheap copy of THE MAN IN MY GRAVE today, it would have to be the DBC edition. It’s a little surprising that there was never a paperback edition of this book. An anti-burking detective is one I’m sure I’d remember.
I’d say it was unique.Īnd that’s why I’m sure I’ve never read this book, somewhat to my surprise. Deeck: WILSON TUCKER – The Man in My Grave.”īill was quite right about Brooks’ profession, calling it an “unusual” line of work. As defined by Brooks, burking, named after the infamous William Burke, is the providing of cadavers to medical schools under suspicious circumstances, although murder does not necessarily play a role.Īn interesting detective in an unusual line and a somewhat frenetic investigation put this in the enjoyable entertainment class.ĩ Responses to “Reviewed by William F. For Brooks is a field representative of the Association of American Memorial Parks, and he and his organization believe that burking is rife in the area.
Still, it seems that Brooks has other graves - actually, the lack of them - in mind. Besides the epitaph’s being inaccurate, Brooks claims it doesn’t scan, by which I think he means doesn’t rhyme. The discovery of his premature burial was brought about by someone pointing out the epitaph in a printed collection of the wisest and wittiest. After all, he argues, here he is above ground some twenty-five years after the alleged interment. The grave and the headstone are indeed extant, but he somehow feels he isn’t in the plot. It is to Rocky Knoll, Illinois, that Benjamin Gordon (Beejee) Brooks comes to check out the grave in which he is supposedly buried. Hardcover reprint: Detective Book Club, 3-in-1 edition, February 1956.
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