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FRANCIS M. NEVINS
DON DIABLO: BOOK OF A LOST FILM
THE ANTHONY BOUCHER CHRONICLES
PUBLISH AND PERISH, CORRUPT AND ENSNARE
INTO THE SAME RIVER, BENEFICIARIES' REQUIEM
Francis M. Nevins is sort of the patron saint of Ramble House. Back in 2000 or so when Jim Weiler and Fender Tucker were figuring out how to make books at home with their PCs they needed a flagship author, some classic author who Ramble House could use to base their budding company. Harry Stephen Keeler proved to be such an author, and there was no one on earth who knew more about Keeler than Francis M. Nevins. "Mike" had established himself as as Edgar-winning mystery writer and scholar with his Loren Mensing legal thrillers but with Ramble House he was given free rein to follow his quirky passions and before we knew it, Ramble House had published everything Keeler had written, including the many odd mysteries that Keeler never had published in the US. Ramble House may come and go, but the collections of Mike Nevins describe the mystery world of the 20th century as no other author or chronicler has. No library is complete without the works of Francis M. Nevins in it.