Bird Isle-Jack Vance mystery novel, book review
Bird Isle-Jack Vance mystery novel (author’s preferred title) AKA: Bird Island and Isle of Peril Bird Isle was written by Jack Vance in 1947 and had a draft title of Forbidden Island. It was first published ten years later in 1957 by Mystery House publishers with the title Isle of Peril under the pseudonym of Alan Wade. This written date of 1947 makes it the first mystery novel Vance wrote, or at least the first written mystery novel that was not lost. (Although Bird Isle is really more of a comic novel than a mystery.) In the 1988 Underwood-Miller release the title was changed from Isle of Peril to Bird Isle with Jack Vance listed as the author. The 2002 Vance Integral Edition the title was changed again, this time to Bird Island. The 2018 Spatterlight Press release reverted back to the title of Bird Isle. It is 136 pages long. Bird Isle has about as much plot as a Marx Brother's movie with a plethora of odd characters and strange...