The Mystery Box: What Readers Say

WHAT READERS & REVIEWERS SAY

Table of Contents - Sample Online Story - About the Author

"a fresh approach to mixing stamps, history and lore...collectors will enjoy The Mystery Box but the book also will have great crossover appeal and would make a great gift for a spouse or friend who doesn't collect"

Peter Martin, Editor,
Scott Stamp Monthly

"For those of us addicted to philately, Frederick Highland has provided us with a 'good read' "

Joseph E. Foley, Editor Philatelic Communicator

Read L.N. Williams' introduction in The Cinderella Philatelist. to the excerpted story "The Fallen Vicar" from The Mystery Box.

"Stamp Related Stories Make Summer Reading Fun"

"For this summer, there's a fun alternative sure to satisfy young and old alike. And, especially if you're a collector, you won't want to wait to find out what's in The Mystery Box. ... In a nutshell, it's great summer reading that blows Silas Marner out of the water"

Peter Rexford
St. Louis Post Dispatch

"Equipped with a vivid imagination, he presents the reader with a fascinating collection of stamps. ... Written all in good fun, Highland's book is highly amusing, as well as informative. He writes of a subject that he obviously loves, and it shows.

Shelley Golodowski
Midwest Book Review
Golodowski's Bookshelf

"The Mystery Box is certainly filled with imagination"

George Griffenhagen, Editor
Topical Time

" 'The Mystery Box' is an outstanding collection of mystery stories"

Jim Cox, Editor,
Midwest Book Review
The Mystery Bookshelf

"The book conveys such a feeling of delight, verve,...the author's delight - his 'serious pleasure'...Here is a book, one feels, which the author really enjoyed writing and the enjoyment is contagious"

Edward Clark
University Educator

"My favorite stories are "Devil at the Door", like others, so neatly connecting politics past and present, but this one with a riveting focus on Bosnia. ... and "Case of the Missing Mogul, done with such special high spirits, with one of the best lines in the book - "But what, I asked, driving down the highway of diamonds about her neck..."

(The reader is referring to a comment by Nick Diamond, Private Eye, who also coined the phrase "Whoever knocks stamp collecting is a chump")

"You bring the reader into your world of stamps with a nicely charged atmosphere of discovery from the start"

"I see now why serious people collect stamps. I feel a twinge of regret that I didn't go on collecting after a year or two in the Edison School Stamp Club at age 11. .... Now if I had a young child, I would encourage him/her to collect stamps (and would point out initially their visual interest, including - sorry - the chicken stamp! - I like it! "
(The reader refers to the 1940's US "chicken" stamp featured in "The Philatelic Hall of Shame")

Besides the collecting-excitement, you show how worlds of various kinds open up to the 'inquiring mind'."

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"a fresh approach to mixing stamps, history and lore...collectors will enjoy The Mystery Box but the book also will have great crossover appeal and would make a great gift for a spouse or friend who doesn't collect" Peter Martin, Editor, *Scott Stamp Monthly*		"For those of us addicted to philately, Frederick Highland has provided us with a 'good read' " Joseph E. Foley, Editor *Philatelic Communicator*
Read L.N. Williams' introduction in The Cinderella Philatelist. to the excerpted story "The Fallen Vicar" from *The Mystery Box*.	*"Stamp Related Stories Make Summer Reading Fun"* "For this summer, there's a fun alternative sure to satisfy young and old alike. And, especially if you're a collector, you won't want to wait to find out what's in *The Mystery Box. ... In a nutshell, it's great summer reading that blows Silas Marner* out of the water" Peter Rexford *St. Louis Post Dispatch*
"Equipped with a vivid imagination, he presents the reader with a fascinating collection of stamps. ... Written all in good fun, Highland's book is highly amusing, as well as informative. He writes of a subject that he obviously loves, and it shows. Shelley Golodowski Midwest Book Review Golodowski's Bookshelf		"*The Mystery Box* is certainly filled with imagination" George Griffenhagen, Editor *Topical Time*
" '*The Mystery Box'* is an outstanding collection of mystery stories" Jim Cox, Editor, *Midwest Book Review* The Mystery Bookshelf	"The book conveys such a feeling of delight, verve,...the author's delight - his 'serious pleasure'...Here is a book, one feels, which the author really enjoyed writing and the enjoyment is contagious" Edward Clark *University Educator*