#TopTenTuesday Books Featuring Handwritten Documents #TuesdayBookBlog

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books with Handwriting on the Cover. I’m pretty bad at topics featuring covers because I can never remember what’s on them without picking what seems like a hundred books off the shelf one by one. So I’ve taken a slight detour with a list of books that feature handwritten documents. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

1. ‘The Red-Headed League’ in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Jabez Wilson is hired to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica by the mysterious Red-Headed League
2. The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen – Set in the Dead Letters Depot where ‘letter detectives’ work to reunite letters with their intended recipients
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – A young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters in her father’s library recording a quest
4. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie – A series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the calm of the village of Lymstock
5. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans – Most mornings Sybil Van Antwerp takes up her pen to write letters to a variety of recipients
6. Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce – Emmy Lake takes it upon herself to respond to letters sent to advice columnist Mrs Henrietta Bird
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows – A young writer begins a correspondence with a man on the island of Guernsey
8. The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain – A man finds an abandoned woman’s handbag on a Parisian street containing a red notebook with haphazard jottings
9. The Letter Reader by Jan Casey – Connie Allinson joins the WRNS and is assigned the task of reading and altering correspondence to ensure no sensitive information crosses enemy lines.
10. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – Richard Hannay comes into possession of a coded notebook containing clues to a conspiracy