Any mystery novels involving stamps?

Kevin Lauderdale

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Jan 29, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/29/96

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Does anyone know of any mystery novels (or other sorts of novels)
involving the world of stamps?

-Kevin

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Michael Meadowcroft

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Jan 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/30/96

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The current list of novels alleged to have a philatelic interest is:

The Stamp Collectors
David Benedictus

The Postage Stamp Murder
George C Bestor

Stolen Stamps
J Bruce Chittenden

The Spider's Web
Agatha Christie

*Antigua Penny, Puce
Robert Graves

Fair Tomorrow
Emily Loring

The Lady Forger
F C Melville

*The Tribe that lost its Head
Nicholas Montserrat

Cancelled in Red
Hugh Pentecost

The Chinese Orange Mystery
Ellery Queen

The Adventures of Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen

The Wrecker
R L Stevenson

The Dutch Blue Error
William G Tapply

*Adventures of Goodnight and Loving
Leslie Thomas

*John Caldigate
Anthony Trollope

Lost Covers
Edna Turpin

The Naked Nuns
Colin Watson

I've only so far managed to find those marked "*". Anyone coming across
any of others in their meanderings amongst the world's secondhand
bookshops please buy them and let me know the cost!
--
Michael Meadowcroft

Eric Hopper

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Jan 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/30/96

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I believe Lawrence Sanders wrote a novel a while back (McNally's Luck I
think), that had a picture of an American invert on the cover. I assume it's
about stamps to some degree, with lots of smut thrown in for good measure!

Edward F. Dietz, Jr.

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Jan 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/31/96

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You can also add these two to the list:

The Case of the One-Penny Orange (A Mario Masuto Mystery)
by E.V. Cunningham (Jove/HBJ Books)

The Scarlet Ruse (Travis McGee series)
by John D. MacDonald (Fawcett Gold Medal Books)

Ed Dietz
Austin, TX
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Jan 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/31/96

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Also, the late John D. MacDonald (a long-time colector) wrote one of his
Travis Magee novels around the stamp trade. As memory serves, the title of
the book is "The Scarlet Ruse."

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Toke Norby

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Jan 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/31/96

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Michael Meadowcroft <Mead...@bramley.demon.co.uk> writes:

>The current list of novels alleged to have a philatelic interest is:

......snip

and 'De Draebende Frimaerker' (Danish for 'The Fatal Stamps')
By Sigurd Togeby

:-)

Toke Norby

Bill Vencill

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Feb 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/1/96

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In rec.collecting.stamps t...@fi.aau.dk (Toke Norby ) said:

>Michael Meadowcroft <Mead...@bramley.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>>The current list of novels alleged to have a philatelic interest is:

>.......snip

>
>and 'De Draebende Frimaerker' (Danish for 'The Fatal Stamps') By Sigurd
Togeby
>
>:-)
>
>Toke Norby

As my Danish is a bit rusty, was it ever translated into English?

TIA
Bill Vencill
ae...@hooked.net

Paul Albright

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Feb 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/1/96

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I think we could add to the list:

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
Lawrence Block

In addition there are some movies that feature stamps, e.g. Charade with
Audrey Hepburn. I am not sure if they are from original screenplays or
based on published fiction.

Happy reading (and stamping)!

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Kevin Santry

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Feb 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/1/96

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Don't forget the movie "Charade" too. Won't give it away, but stamps are
very important to the plot.

Toke Norby

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Feb 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM2/2/96

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ae...@worm.hooked.net (Bill Vencill) writes:

Hi Bill!
A bit rusty? ;-) well, maybe Danish will be a future FIP language as our
former president of The Danish Philatelic Federation, Knud Mohr is a nominee
in 1998 when Jattia retire from FIP. But to be serious:

No, never. I think this book was written in 1940 or so and I would lie if I
say that it was a 'bestseller'. I only bought the book because of it's title
and I have never finished it. At any attemp to finish it I fall asleap ;-)

Toke Norby