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.

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/

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

James M. Cain

 

Crime fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain

Seven Silent Men - Noel Behn

 

Old paperback I found in a box. From 1984. Intricate bank heist in Missouri. 

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

A German Requiem - Philip Kerr

 

New trade paperback from Barnes & Noble. Bernie Gunther. One of the early ones, last in the Berlin Noir trilogy. From 1991. Partly set in Austria just after the war and The Third Man is referenced.

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

Hickory Dickory Death - Agatha Christie

 

Vintage Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot. Originally titled Hickory Dickory Dock in Britain. From 1955. Mystery set in a student hostel.

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

Greeks Bearing Gifts - Philip Kerr

 

Trade paperback I just got from Barnes & Noble. From 2018. Bernie Gunther. One of my favorite detective series. Set in Germany during and after the war years. This one came out right when Mr. Kerr died.

https://therealbookspy.com/2018/04/08/a-book-spy-review-greeks-bearing-gifts-by-philip-kerr/  

https://www.crimetime.co.uk/greeks-bearing-gifts-by-philip-kerr/

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

The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie

 

Hercule Poirot. Started this yesterday. Magnum, P.I. was often reading Agatha Christie paperbacks. 

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

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

 

Movie tie-in paperback.

Cain x 3 - James M. Cain

 

Book Club edition with The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, and Double Indemnity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain

The Three Coffins - John Dickson Carr

 

aka The Hollow Man. 1935. Acclaimed locked room mystery. John Dickson Carr does atmosphere and tone well for this time of year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Man_(Carr_novel)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

 

I started at random with The Musgrave Ritual. 

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

The Alienist - Caleb Carr

 

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