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The Mystery Box, short stories by Frederick Highland taking their inspiration from philatelic images

Night Falls on Damascus, a novel by Frederick Highland, set in Damascus during the French Mandate
Ghost Eater, a novel set in turn of the century Sumatra, by Frederick Higland
  
Stamp Whys

Puzzlers!

StampWhys - Puzzlers with Attitude!

Mystery

The Clearing
An "old fisherman" reports to the Magistrate

History

The Emperor's Garden
The Emperor's Garden

Stamps

Philately - The Fiction Connection
Sushi! Yum!


Chicago Philatelic Society Medal

The Mystery Box book is the proud winner of a Silver Medal awarded by the Chicago Philatelic Society CHICAGOPEX Literature Exhibit

Your Sponsor: The Mystery Box by Frederick Highland

Read the Book Review by Barbara Kinne of the APS American Philatelist

Text on the cover, below the bust of napoleon

...Holmes bent eagerly over the shattered remains. Next instant, with a loud shot of triumph, held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.

"Gentlemen", he cried, "let me introduce you to the famous black pearl of the Borgias!"

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