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1994: 5th Anniversary of Georges Simenon 1903-1989 (Design P Shopper; Engraver D Roegiest)

The prolific Georges Simenon who spent the latter part of his life in Switzerland.  Penguin books have been republishing his Inspector Maigret novels here over recent years. At the moment they number 75, still lots more to go. Satisfyingly short with normally just one murder, no serial killers for Simenon, he liked to write about the ordinary and a wrong decision. It is thought he wrote about 400 books 117 are stand alone darker more psychological novels.

2010: Novels of Crime

The UK loves a Sandi Noir book or subtitled TV series.  Here we have Maj Sjowall and PerWahloo who wrote the Martin Beck novels.  They wrote together each night a chapter each, the next night they would swap chapters and type them up. Ten years, ten novels, a critique of Swedish society. The run ended with Per Wahloo's death.  Next is the behemoth that was Henning Mankell known for his his troubled policeman Wallander.

I have not read any Liza Marklund but she writes about a fictional newspaper journalist called Annika Bengtzon (Marklund is a journalist herself). Another one I've not read - Hakan Nesser, his detectives are Inspector Van Veeteren which sounds like a typical police procedural but he also writes about Inspector Barbarotti which sound more intriguing. Last but not least we have Steig Larsson who died too young, and whose three Millennium novels feature Lisbeth Salander, he had planned 10 books. Apparently he based Lisbeth on how he imagined Pippi Longstocking might have been as an adult. I always think a trilogy is a perfect number so I've never read any of the subsequent novels written by someone else. I also thought I would prefer Larsson's imagination and the ideas and questions he put in my head of where it was going next.

The white bullet holes on the stamps are exactly that, holes in the stamps. Nice touch.

1975: Hans Christian Andersen

A great story teller  of a different genre with tales for all ages.  Denmark did some joint issues with China for a Hans Christian Andersen celebration in 2013 (he is very popular in China) but I have chosen an earlier Chinese issue

2005: Andersen's Fairy Tales (Design - Qiong Liang)

which feature among others The Emperors New Clothes and

The Little Mermaid

2010 Novels of Crime Booklet Cover

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Writers or Composers - read more at  See It On A Postcard