HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian

 

Book #3 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. From 1973. Wiki says this is considered one of the best in the long series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Surprise_(novel)

Paper Lion - George Plimpton

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Lion

North Dallas Forty - Peter Gent

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dallas_Forty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gent

The Other Side of Silence - Philip Kerr

 

From 2016. 11th book in the Bernie Gunther series. Somerset Maugham appears in this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_Silence 

https://berlinnoir.com/book/other_side_silence/

True Grit - Charles Portis

 

Trade paperback movie tie-in. General Sterling Price the cat. One of the best books I have ever read. Plus the John Wayne movie tie-in. My rescue cat is named General Sterling Price. Found him in a McDonald's parking lot. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(novel)  

You don't have any family, do you?

Except Chen Lee and that lazy cat.

General Price don't belong to me.

Cats don't belong to nobody!

He just rooms with me.

Course I depend on him...

Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian

 

Trade paperback. Book #2 in the Aubrey Maturin series. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Captain_(novel) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series

Death Wish - Brian Garfield

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(novel)

Prague Fatale - Philip Kerr

 

Trade paperback. From 2011. Ninth book in the Bernie Gunther series. 

https://berniegunther.com/book/prague_fatale/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Fatale

Keystone - Peter Lovesey

 

Ex-library standalone period novel set in the silent film days in Hollywood. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey

A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie

 

Miss Marple from 1950. Pocket Book vintage paperback. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Murder_Is_Announced

Field Gray - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I got off Amazon. From 2010. 7th in the series. 

https://berniegunther.com/book/field_grey/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

Paperback Shelves Part 3

 

Section by the back window. More individual crime fiction author collections but also some paperback bestsellers. P.D. James in the bottom right corner. I have a very large collection of paperback crime fiction writers.

Paperback Shelves Part 2

 

Lower shelves even harder to light. I took some of these old paperback bestsellers out of boxes in the closet so I could see what I had and read them again.

Paperback Shelves

 

Took some of my old paperback bestsellers out of boxes and stuck them on shelves in the back bedroom so I could read some of them again. Hard to light properly. 

If the Dead Rise Not - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I ordered off of Amazon. The third of four Bernie Gunther books I got this summer. Bernie is a hotel detective in this one and also partially set in Havana with two timelines. From 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_Dead_Rise_Not

https://berniegunther.com/book/if_dead_rise_not/

Alistair MacLean

 

Paperback thrillers. I also have a bunch of ex-library hardcovers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_MacLean 

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/alistair-maclean-bbc-alba/ 

Graham Greene

 

Thrillers and novels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene

A Quiet Flame - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I got off Amazon recently. This one he is in Argentina.

https://berniegunther.com/book/quiet_flame/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie

 

Miss Marple I found in my boxes of vintage paperbacks. The first Miss Marple novel from 1930 and the first for me. I read two Poirot paperbacks before this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_at_the_Vicarage

The One from the Other - Philip Kerr

 

I recently ordered several of the earlier Bernie Gunther books off of Amazon. One of my favorite detective series. This is the one that restarted the series after a 15 year hiatus.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399152993

https://berniegunther.com/book/one_from_other/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr