Abandoned Bookshop is seeking the family of a mystery author first published during the 1930s, in order to give them the royalties from new editions
In a quest that calls for the detective skills of fictional sleuths from time past, a publisher has launched a search for the surviving relatives of a crime novelist whose novels have been out of print for almost 80 years.
Clifton Robbins published nine novels between 1931 and 1940, five of which featured London barrister-turned-detective Clay Harrison. Scott Pack, co-founder and publisher at Canelo’s imprint Abandoned Bookshop, first discovered Robbins in a secondhand bookshop nearly 20 years ago, and said he had “spent almost as long trying to track down the author or his family”.
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