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Vintage paperback aficionado.

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Today’s finds.

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Walked into a dinky little thrift store in a small Florida town this morning and found these paperbacks. I’d been on a run of bad hunting luck lately. Maybe the worm has turned.

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I finally found a copy of this book and read it…and loved it! Perly Dunsmore is a great villain.

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@bolony It is.

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Recent additions to my Collection. Look at that art.

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@stritchmanzello This might be my favorite album of hers. Absolutely wonderful.

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I found these today at a Friends of the Library sale. With all the other stuff I bought they ended up being ten cents apiece.

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@Gartharizona I nearly fell off my chair.

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This book has the biggest plot twist of any book I’ve ever read. I think most authors wouldn’t dare to even attempt it. When it dropped, I thought it was too much. But I kept reading and I must admit, the author did a pretty good job of selling it.

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@OlmanFeelyus Great writing, compelling plots, and often a twist ending. The protagonists are likable and the bad guys are despicable.

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How did it take me so long to discover Andrew Garve? Why isn’t he talked about more? I love his work. I bought these dirt cheap and feel like I struck gold.

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This is a doozy of a premise.

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Look what I found on my travels today. A compilation of 47 short stories and one novel by one of my favorite authors. I didn’t know this book existed until today.

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@PaprbackWarrior Ken Follett’s new Kingsbridge novel.

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Here’s another winner by the great Bruno Fischer. Simon Field’s sultry girlfriend has been involved in multiple killings that were ruled self-defense. But lately he’s been wondering…do her accounts all add up? Could the killings actually have been murder?

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@craigzimmerman6 Yes, true. But I always read in context with the time it was written. In 1960, when everyone was terrified of nuclear war, it must have packed a wallop.

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This is a terrific novel, the second one of Coppel’s I have loved. Why do I never hear his name mentioned in conversations about great thriller writers? This one had me from the get-go. And that cover art…

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@GavinWoltjer Go with my prayers and best wishes.

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Great writing at a sentence level. But the femme fatale being only 16 was a bit cringy for me. Would a 38-year-old doctor with a thriving practice really throw it all away to be with a bratty teenager? I had trouble buying in to that notion.

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