Strange People, Queer Notions-Jack Vance mystery novel, book review
Strange People, Queer Notions-Jack Vance mystery novel AKA: Strange Notions Strange People, Queer Notions is a mystery novel that was written in 1957 but not published until 1985. This one of two mystery novel was written under the name “Jack Vance.” (Dark Ocean is the other.) The other 12 of his mystery novels used John Holbrook Vance, his full real name, or the pseudonym Ellery Queen, Peter Held or Alan Wade. Strange People, Queer Notions is a rework of an unpublished lost Vance piece titled “Courage My Strange Child” and is a variant of his novel Strange Notions that was initially published in 1985. It is now back in print in an excellent Spatterlight Press, 200 page, paperback edition. "Chuck" (Clarence) Musgrave is an American artist, specializing in sepia sketches who, while in Rome, meets another American, an unusual man named Kex. After seeing him drawing, Kex talks with Musgrave and then offers him a commission to draw char...