How about anything by John Buchan- Lord Tweedmure, and Governor-General of Canada? Died in 1940; in copyright inboth US/UK, probably /'The Thirty-Nine Steps/' would be the most obvious choice. He did write over a hundred books, though.... Michael (Vasa) Lockey

I think that is a wonderful suggestion. I take it we would need to work from a 1928 edition... Andrew On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Wallace J.McLean wrote:

I want to recycle another suggestion from the spring, I think made by David Fewer: Rockbound, by Frank Parker Day the public-domain book that won "Canada Reads" on CBC, that sold a quarter of a million copies (under the U of T imprint) in Canada, and which has the added attractiveness of being PD in Canada, but not in the US (at least not under the primary rule.)