I haven’t bought many items from these collections in the last year. I’ve had other books to buy and publishing costs to deal with, and it’s always hard to find the exact cover and format you want.

For Trixie, they’ve released the first four books as new reprints along with a box set. They came out in 2024, and I was finally able to get the singles for around $12 each on Amazon in early 2025. I got the box set in January this year.

I have a Pinterest board fo all of my Trixie items here.

I managed to get a couple of Dana Girls white hardcovers. There are two variants to collect, as I’ve mentioned before. The first three have the girls looking away on the spine and back cover picture, the single book has them looking at you.

I have a Pinterest board for all of my Dana Girls items here.

For my Hardy Boys collection, I’ve finally managed to track down the last two TV tie-in Files books. 109 and 118.

Here is the complete collection.

I have a Pinterest board for all of my Hardy Boys items here.

As for Jessica, it’s been really hard finding the mass market paperbacks I collect. I’ve been unable to find 58, I was able to get 59, but 60 plus are non-existant. I’ve heard the company producing mass markets are no longer doing them because they don’t make money, which means it’s going to be hard continuing to buy mass market sized books. It looks like I’ll either have to buy the normal paperbacks, in which case I should have just bought them in the beginning, or start buying hardcovers. Oi!

Here’s 59.

I managed to finally get these two books. Originally written from the pilot and season 1 episodes, there’s one more book to go and I’m hoping to get that at some point this year.

I found these cover editions on eBay in March. They came together, and are books 3 and 4, so I bought them. Martinis & Mayhem had the docket inside (to the right). It was bought for $11.95 at Angus & Robertson Bookworld, on the 23rd of November, 1996. I’ll get books 1 and 2 as soon as possible.

I found this Avon edition of Gin & Daggers, and it’s the first MSW book I’ve read. I didn’t realise, looking at the ebay listing, what the cover actually was. I just thought it was a woman in bed, but it’s actually a typewriter, with a sheet of paper coming out of it, on which the scene is portrayed. Old school cool!

I finally got this jigsaw. There are two of them, this is the second. I only have one more jigsaw to go before I’m done, and I’m hoping to get that this year.

And here are two new figurines I found out about last year. I didn’t even know they existed, but were definitely on my radar once seen. Both come with multiple accessories, and the boxed versions comes with another face, neither of which look good, but I’m glad I found them. They add to the collection.

I have a Pinterest board for all of my Murder She Wrote items here.