Pretty Sinister Books

While I was sorting books and replacing books I've read back on shelves I was reminded that three books I recently bought were signed. I...

Collector mania. Why have I read yet another book about an aspect of my own life? Am I really that self-obsessed? Must I read about coll...

This was left inside my copy of One Man's Muddle by E. Baker Quinn, a 1938 reprint of a book originally published in 1936.  The card it...

I was pleasantly surprised when this bit of pasteboard appeared in the final pages of a 1934 murder mystery I recently finished reading. Bec...

This morning when I checked my email I got an alert than one of my "want list" books was available for purchase. This happens all ...

Here's part 2 of the books I purchased during the summer.  Plus the best of the vintage paperbacks I picked up yesterday afternoon on th...

Looking over Tracy's post at Bitter Tea and Mystery about her book finds from the Planned Parenthood Sale she attended got me thinking...

David McKay Company, another publisher based in Philadelphia (see previous Main Line Mystery and Lippincott Masked Man posts), joined the...