Paper Lion - George Plimpton

 

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

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...

Death Wish - Brian Garfield

 

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

A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie

 

Miss Marple from 1950. Pocket Book vintage paperback. 

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

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. 

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

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

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)

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

Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard

 

And other paperbacks. I just watched the Steven Spielberg movie with Christian Bale on the free Youtube channel and loved the book. Several of these other old paperbacks have also been movies.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/paperbacks-other.html

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/empire-of-sun-1987.html

The Saint in New York/The Avenging Saint - Leslie Charteris

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(Simon_Templar)

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

 

Movie tie-in paperback.

The Detective - Roderick Thorp

 

Shogun - James Clavell

 

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/shogun.html

For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming

 

My Kind of Game - Anthony Rome

 

Here Comes a Hero - Lawrence Block