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Pub. Date
2013
Description
Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries. The problem is, her employer, Vera Van Alst is the most hated citizen in town. Jordan's first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play. Jordan soon finds out that someone is willing to murder to keep the play away from Vera. Jordan's new...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006
Description
In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true book woman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway...
4) The forgers
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary forger -- under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon Will realizes that this killer threatens everything he holds dear.
"The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts...
Author
Series
Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about...
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