Well, dear reader, I did it again. I went to the Hoosier Hills Book Fair and handed over a sizable donation to the food bank in exchange for a rolling bag full of books. I spent a very happy morning with a huge spreadsheet of books-to-be-found and filled that bag up like there would never be another book fair ever. Now I get to sit down and log my treasures from the first day (I'll probably go back with the hubby at some point). Today's tally (including duplicates that I managed to pick up despite carrying around that spreadsheet...) is 61 books, one Sherlock Holmes jigsaw puzzle, and 6 Christmas CDs--because I can't resist new-to-me Christmas music. Duplicates that were not intentional upgrades of previously owned books are not listed below. We'll see if I pick up any more before the weekend is over.
Vintage Mysteries (pre-1960)
The Best of Mr. Fortune Stories by H. C. Bailey (Pocket Books #190)
All Men Are Murderers by Lee Blackstock (Doubleday Crime Club)
The May Week Murder by Douglas G. Browne (reprint)
The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude (reprint)
The Dull Dead by Gwendoline Butler
The Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr (vintage Penguin #528)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (Pan Books X736)
Murder Gone Minoan by Clyde B. Clason (Doubleday Crime Club)
Murder at the New York World's Fair by Freeman Dana [Phoebe Atwood Taylor] (reprint)
The White Priory Murders by Carter Dickson (upgraded copy of Pocket Books #156)
Murder-Go-Round by G. P. Donnel, Jr. (1st edition)
The Fletcher Omnibus (The Middle Temple Murder; The Yellow-Orange Diamond; The Amaranth Club) by J. S. Fletcher (vintage edition)
The Punt Murder by Aceituna Griffin (reprint)
Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston (reprint)
Terror by Twilight by Kathleen Moore Knight (Collier Crime Club edition)
The Black Coat by Constance & Gwenyth Little (reprint)
Black Corridors by Little (reprint)
The Black Gloves by Little (reprint)
The Black Paw by Little (reprint)
The Black Shrouds by Little (reprint)
The Dishonest Murderer by Frances & Richard Lockridge (upgraded copy w/dustjacket)
Murder! Murder! Murder! (a Mr. & Mrs. North 3-in-1 Volume) by Lockridge
The Norths Meet Murder by Lockridge (more pristine Pocket Books #166)
Murder Without Clues by Eleanor Pierson (Mystery Novel Classic #55)
The Penthouse Mystery (an Ellery Queen Junior Mystery) by Ellery Queen
The Claverton Affair by John Rhode (reprint)
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (hardback)
The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Pocket Books #171)
The Clever One by Edgar Wallace (Scotland Yard edition)
In the Tiger's Cage by Carolyn Wells (1st edition)
The Master Murderer by Wells
The Tapestry Room Murder by Wells (1st edition)
Mystery of the Green Cat by Phyllis A Whitney (1st edition)
The Curiosity of Mr. Treadgold by Valentine Williams (1st edition; dustjacket)
Collection (mostly vintage)
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories by Patricia Craig (ed)
Silver Age (1960-1989)
The Twelve Deaths of Christmas by Marian Babson
Coffin in Malta by Gwendoline Butler
Nameless Coffin by Butler
Nobody's Perfect by Douglas Clark (more vintage copy)
Premedicated Murder by Douglas Clark (better copy)
A Child's Garden of Death by Richard Forrest
Landed Gently by Alan Hunter (better copy)
Alibi for a Corpse by Elizabeth Lemarchand
No Vacation from Murder by Lemarchand
Cold Light of Day by Emma Page
Nightmare Time by Hugh Pentecost
A Medium for Murder by Mignon Warner
Six Nuns & a Shotgun by Colin Watson
Newer Mysteries
Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict by Emily Brightwell
They Brother Death by E. X. Ferrars (academic mystery)
Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman by Lee Strauss
Murder at the Boat Club by Strauss
Murder on Eaton Square by Strauss
Star Trek/Science Fiction
Captain's Table: Once Burned by Peter David
Captain's Table: Dujonian's Hoard by Michael Jan Friendman
Wow. Nicely done!
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