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Friday, January 11, 2013

ALTUS PRESS UNVEILS A MAJOR ADVENTURE


Altus Press has released Deep Waters: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 1 by L. Patrick Greene. This edition features an introduction by Ed Hulse and is available in paperback and limited edition hardcover.

About From Deep Waters: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 1--
The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material. Join Aubrey St. John Major--AKA the Major--and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of Africa. This collection includes the first 12 stories, uncut and with all the original illustrations, along with Greene's correspondence, and an article by Archibald Bittner on the author. Capped with a career-spanning introduction by pulp historian Ed Hulse, this is a collection decades in the making.

The 320 Page Deep Waters: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 1 contains the following stories:

No Evidence (Adventure, November 1, 1919)
Two of a Kind (Adventure, November 15, 1920)
Lines of Cleavage (Adventure, February 1, 1921)
Ivory (Adventure, March 1, 1921)
Amnesia (Adventure, April 1, 1921)
A Deal in Diamonds (Short Stories, May 1921)
Tools (Adventure, August 1, 1921)
Bitter Alum (Short Stories, August 1921)
The Seventh Plague (Short Stories, September 10, 1921)
Royal Game (Short Stories, November 10, 1921)
Kruger’s Gold (Short Stories, October 10, 1922)
From Deep Waters (Short Stories, November 25, 1922)