When I was cleaning out my dad's garage I came across a box filled with most of the original run of these books from 1964-1984. Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews ride again in my house.
When I was cleaning out my dad's garage I came across a box filled with most of the original run of these books from 1964-1984. Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews ride again in my house.
Absolutely AWESOME!!!!! I read every one the library in town had. I spent many hours imagining my own junkyard hideout. I bet they're even better now. ENJOY!!
I read every single one multiple times, and they are one of the reasons I'm an author today.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
I'm probably not far behind you on reading them. These were on a bookshelf in our house growing up. I read them all basically after I graduated from the Hardy Boys and time and time again after that. I love mysteries, because of these books. Well, these books and watching Dragnet, Perry Mason, Charlie Chan, and Colombo growing up*.Originally Posted by Lester Polfus
I was very excited to find these, because I thought my parents had gotten rid of them years ago. I actually had started looking for them in used bookstores and buying them when I found them. Turns out my dad had saved them.
And next to those were all of his hardcover Louis L'Amour books, which I also read as a kid. And I attribute my great love of westerns to those.
And while none of my novels are yet published, I am working on them. Eventually, I'll have my name on published fiction and non-fiction works...but right now it's just non-fiction. Some day. That's the dream.
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I'm going to turn 35 in ~3.5 weeks. And MY childhood TV memories consist of shows that had been canceled long before I was born. Seriously, I Love Lucy, Dragnet, Adam-12, Perry Mason, Colombo, Charlie Chan movies, 3 Stooges, M*A*S*H, Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents - these are what I remember watching even as a teenager. No wonder I like revolvers, westerns, and old cars.
I loved these as a youth. The only library accessible to me was a mobile library that visited remote communities. Every two weeks (the schedule of how often it visited) I would check to see if it had any 3 investigator novels that I hadn't already read.When I was cleaning out my dad's garage I came across a box filled with most of the original run of these books from 1964-1984. Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews ride again in my house.
Oh man I haven’t thought about mobile libraries in probably decades. I used to look forward to that day so much. Good memories.
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