This Time Forever (1957) by John Glasby

In 2021, I reviewed A Time for Murder (2002/13) by John Glasby, a prolific fictioneer of the 1950s and '60s, who produced science-fiction, westerns, hospital romances, war stories and crime fiction – nearly 300 novels, novellas and short stories. Glasby made a comeback in the 2000s on the insistence of his literary agent and pulp historian, Philip Harbottle. A Time for Murder was the first new entry in Glasby's series about Johnny Merak, "an ex-con turned private eye," which appeared alongside reprints of the first and third novel from the series' original run. The second novel remained out-of-print due to copies being ultra rare, extremely elusive and practically impossible to come by. That is, until recently!Some months ago, Wildside Press reprinted This Time Forever (1957) with a short, insightful introduction from Harbottle explaining how it slipped through the cracks and accidentally became a unicorn to collectors. When attempting to track down a copy to reprint, Harbottle…