{"id":52332,"date":"2022-02-03T03:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52332"},"modified":"2022-04-11T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T07:38:08","slug":"the-zanetti-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/the-zanetti-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zanetti Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft was not the only one ghostwriting popular fiction for Houdini in the mid 1920s. A new book on the topic is <em>The Zanetti Mystery: Plus candidates for ghostwriting the story<\/em> (December 2021). The book is a $25 paperback, and is shipping now.<\/p>\n<p>The author republishes the &#8216;Houdini&#8217; detective thriller novel <em>The Zanetti Mystery<\/em> (1925), with the original magazine serial illustrations, apparently for the first time since it appeared. He also asks, and with new research&#8230; &#8216;who was the likely ghostwriter?&#8217;  Candidates include Eddy Jr. and Lovecraft himself. But they are not the only candidates, and it seems to me a little unlikely that an &#8216;Eddy + Lovecraft lightly revising&#8217; detective novel could have escaped notice until now. True, Lovecraft was experimenting with speed-writing a detective-like tale at about this time (&#8220;Red Hook&#8221;), but there was a romance element to <em>The Zanetti Mystery<\/em> which would not have been congenial. <\/p>\n<p>That said, some <em>Tentaclii<\/em> readers may still be interested in this new book&#8217;s evaluation of the most-likely authorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft was not the only one ghostwriting popular fiction for Houdini in the mid 1920s. A new book on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/the-zanetti-mystery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53377,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52332\/revisions\/53377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}