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Murder by Death

I read cozy and historical mysteries, a bit of Paranormal/UF, and to mix it up, I read science and gardening books on occasion.

Perfect timing book haul

I'm sitting at home on a random Tuesday feeling sorry for myself, instead of being at work, because of stupid back issues.  This happened to me at the exact same time last year and rather than miss the rare plant show, I went anyway and made my back a thousand times worse.  This weekend is the rare plant show, so I'm laying around as immobile as possible today in hopes that come this weekend, my back will be better and I won't have to hobble around the show looking like an old crone.

 

Anyway, the point is, MT stopped by the house during his work errands to drop off a box that had arrived for me from Mysterious Books in NYC.  Yay - books!  The perfect distraction!  And this box came with built-in further distractions in the form of a catalog, so I can pity shop my way through my back pain!  Woo Hoo!  ;-)

 

Here's my haul:

 

 

The top three are books by authors of the Golden Age of Crime fiction, part of my vintage mysteries project and The Detection Club's un-official bingo game-thats-not-a-game.  Guess what my Halloween read is going to be this year?  (Hint: it's not the first two.)

 

The Barbara Michaels and Gilman books were impulse buys:  I know Michaels can be hit or miss, but I can't resist reading whatever she's written anyway, and I liked Gilman's Kaleidoscope so I caved to curiosity.  Dunning's Booked to Die was a cheapie I threw in because I found one of the later books at a book sale and it's a read-in-order thing.

 

That Murder in the Bookshop is the catalog.  150 pages of mysteries involving books or bookstores or libraries, all for sale.  It appears Otto Penzler is selling off his personal collection.  Hoo boy...someone hide my wallet.