Stamp Collecting In Novels

"After dinner, the stamp collectors passed around the mints"

On the previous page,
by Barry Maitland is a highly recommended read.

I am not pushing Amazon or the book "The Chalon Heads" but it was included on today's daily e-mail that I get from BookBud of free or cheap books. The Amazon Kindle edition is $1.99 (USA) today. I did download it.

https://www.amazon.com/Chalon-Heads...p/B00IWGRU34

Thanks for the tip. I got it too!

McNally's Secret (The Archy McNally Series Book 1) is available on Amazon for 99 cents. Plot revolves around a missing block of Inverted Jenneys

Thanks for the tip. I still can't comprehend how I can hit a button on my computer "buy with one click" and a minute later a book is on my Kindle but that's what I did. Looking forward to reading the novel.

Just returning the favor. See above!!

Camille Minichino has published 3 mysteries under the pen name of Jean Flowers in her "A Postmistress Mystery" series:

"Death Takes a Priority", 2015
"Cancelled by Murder", 2016
"Addressed to Kill", 2017

The police are aided by the amateur sleuth, a small town Massachusetts postmaster. A fair bit of c2015 era postal stuff is interwoven as patrons often come to the post office. Lite reading. Here are scans of the paperback editions:

I had no idea there were so many stories and novels written about stamp collecting or with that as a part. Thanks for this topic.

Here are 3 novels written over the years in which the two pence blue "Post Office" Mauritius plays a key role.

Die Blaue Mauritius by Martina Eckart-Helm and published in Germany in 1939.


Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius by Frank Richards and published in Britain in 1952.


The Blue Mauritius by Vernon Warren and published in the US in 1954.

More a book about the post office. By Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund. Not read!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_...he_Post_Horn!

The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Currently reading the Biography of Anthony Trollope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope


A few pages of direct experience of Victorian attitudes, as to employment, and Mr. Trollopes postion at the newly formed Post Office
at ST MARTINS LEGRANDE 1837