Coins

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Originally Posted by CC1

This thread made me think of the book I just finished reading. The other day I stumbled across an old paperback mystery novel that I have no idea when or how I got.

It was titled "Loose Coins". The main characters were into coin collecting and one owned a coin shop in Memphis. It was a very entertaining book with very good development of the characters. It also sparked an old interest I had in coin collecting.

When I finished the book yesterday I did internet research on the authors (it had two strangely enough) to see if there were sequals to it (It had been written around 1998). Sadly I discovered that one of the authors died two years ago at the age of 81 and though he was a prolific science fiction writer this was the only mystery novel he had penned and there are no sequals. The co-authors had not written near as much and I don't see sequals from him either. Arghhh.

My mom had a boatload of silver dollars from the 1800's but a few years ago most of them somehow were lost. I have a few somewhere.

I did a search on Joe L. Hensley. Most of what he wrote looks like mysteries and not science fiction. There are a number of them. I can get them for you if you are interested.

I found two more books by a Guy M. Townsend: To Prove a Villain and Rex Stout: an annotated primary and secondary bibliography (edited by Guy M. Townsend).

I did not find a sequel to Loose Coins.