Last week, a reader from Canada sent me a copy of KANE AND ABEL to be signed.  Not an unusual event, you might think, but it turned out to be an uncorrected proof copy for distribution to the press, dated September 1979.  Naturally I wanted to get my grubby hands on it, as I hadn’t come across one myself for over 30 years.  I offered the reader a limited 30th anniversary edition, plus a copy of my next book in exchange, but he declined the offer, so I sent it back to Canada today. ...