Crime Books

The New Year has arrived, twenty-10. I always love this time of year, I feel the most hopeful and positive. My only New Year Resolution is t...

Pan Books, 1959.

My digital Inspiration Board - Photo credit given when known.

Agatha Christie

I remember the summer my mother let me start checking out Agatha Christie novels at our local library. I've been a fan ever since. by kari on Indulgy.com

Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books seventh impression paperback (1969).

Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books eighth impression paperback (1971).

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Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books twelfth impression paperback (February 1976). First published 1936.

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Cover art by Tom Adams. Fontana Books eighth impression paperback (1964).

Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books fourth impression paperback (1970).

Cover by Tom Adams. Fontana Books nineteenth impression paperback (March 1977). First published 1935.

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie, January 1961, Pocket Books edition, Paperback in English

The vintage artwork just adds so much pizazz to the great Agatha Christie's stories. I wish they'd keep on doing the covers this way, rather than trying to go all cool, calm and understated. I've got a bunch of old paperback covers (mostly Agatha Christie) I've collected over the years, hoping, eventually to make some sort of collage with them. (One of these days it will get done!) Over the years, the paperbacks they belonged to crumbled apart, but I salvaged the covers. They are so much fun…