Linwood Barclay: "I had my nose in paperback adventures of The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

- February 29, 2020

WHAT BOOK would Linwood Barclay
take to a desert island?

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:00 GMT, 27 February 2020 |

UPDATED: 22:00 GMT, 27 February 2020

WHAT BOOK…first gave you the reading bug?

The first books I ever really devoured were the Hardy Boys mysteries. I not only enjoyed following brothers Frank and Joe as they solved crimes, but I loved the actual collecting of their adventures. I liked to place them on my shelf, in order, the cover designs on the spines lining up so perfectly. The same was true of Tom Swift, boy inventor, and such titles as Tom Swift And His Flying Lab, Tom Swift And His Rocket Ship and Tom Swift And His Space Solartron. (See a pattern here?)

After the Hardy Boys I moved on to Agatha Christie, the Nero Wolfe detective novels by Rex Stout, and television tie-in novels of my favourite shows. I wish I could tell you I was reading Hemingway at age 12, but really I had my nose in paperback adventures of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (The Vampire Affair, #6, is a particularly good one.)

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