Talk:Dolores Hitchens

Names

 * one of multiple new sections -P64

Previously we gave her three pseudonyms and cited [ref name=Fingerprints](scroll up) separately for all three. But that source calls "D.B. Olsen" her own name and makes clear that it was a short version of her real first-marriage name. I revised the lead paragraph and completed template Persondata accordingly.

Probably her use name before marriage was Dolores Birk.

--P64 (talk) 21:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Publications

 * one of multiple new sections -P64

Two more books rank number 1 (!) and 16 among her top 20 works as D.B. Olsen--ie, the 20 most widely held by WorldCat libraries. We list six Pennyfeather mysteries, which rank 5-7-9-10-14-15 at WorldCat; twelve Murdock mysteries, which rank 2-3-4 6 8 11-12-13 17-18 with two outside the top 20; and two Mayhew mysteries, which rank 19 and outside the top 20 (her debut novel Clue in the Clay). Her number 20 is a book club edition of four novels including her Cat Wears a Mask (Murdock #8, we say).
 * Olsen Night of the bowstring (Doubleday, 1962) "A Double D western" --her work most widely held in WorldCat libraries
 * Olsen Widows ought to weep (Ziff-Davis, 1947) --first of her two ZD Fingerprint Mysteries(scroll up)

As Dolores Hitchens we list 21 books/novels and a one-act play. At WorldCat the two Jim Sader novels rank 6 and 17. The five husband-and-wife collaborations rank 4 7 14 16 and outside the top 20 (their debut FOB Murder). The fourteen standalone novels that we list fill the other ranks, led by her latest works.

As Dolan Birkley and Noel Burke we list three titles that WorldCat matches except it gives all three with lead article The. All titles are worth checking for lead articles; unfortunately the Library of Congress catalog omits those (always?) as we sometimes do.

--P64 (talk) 20:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)