Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Simmons College

GSLIS BiblioMystery - Our Collection

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Abbott, Jeff. Distant blood. New York, Ballantine, 1996. [After learning that his natural father is wealthy, Jordan Poteet is suddenly a member of a rich Texas dynasty but receives a number of poison-pen notes warning him to stay away from the family reunion on a remote Gulf Coast island. He soon wishes he had heeded the warnings.]
Abbott, Jeff. Do unto others. New York, Ballantine, 1994. [Jordan Poteet returns to his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas to care for his sick mother and argues with the local religious zealot, whom he then finds dead in the public library where Poteet is the head librarian. Agatha and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel.]
Abbott, Jeff. The only good Yankee. New York, Ballantine, 1995. [Amateur sleuth and librarian Jordan Poteet fights his former Bostonian girlfriend, whose company is buying up all the riverfront property in town, but meanwhile her boss turns up dead.]
Abbott, Jeff. Promises of home. New York, Ballantine, 1996. [Twenty years after Jordan Poteet and his friends survive a hurricane by staying in their tree house and discover the body of a dead girl, someone begins to kill off each of the friends, and Jordan must identify the murderer.]
[Abbott's protagonist is a small town librarian sleuth.]
Abercrombie, Barbara. Run for your life. New York, William Morrow, 1984. [Sarah realizes that whoever stole her manuscript intends to act out the final chapter of the book in which the heroine is shot as she crosses the finish line of the marathon.]
Ackroyd, Peter. Chatterton. New York, Grove, 1988. [Two modern-day Londoners attempt to decode the mysteries in an old manuscript of the 18th century Chatterton.] [Beatley PR6051.C64 C53 1987.]
Adams, Deborah. All the dark disguises. New York, Ballantine, 1993.
Adams, Deborah. All the deadly beloved. New York, Ballantine, 1995.
Adams, Deborah. All the great pretenders. New York, Ballantine, 1992.
Adams, Deborah. All the hungry mothers. New York, Ballantine, 1994.
[Series character is a volunteer librarian.]
Adamson, Lydia. Beware the butcher bird. New York, Signet, 1997.
Adamson, Lydia. Beware the tufted duck. New York, Signet, 1996.
Adamson, Lydia. Beware the laughing gull. New York, Signet, 1998.
[Series character, Lucy Wayles, is a retired librarian and fervent birdwatcher.]
Aird, Catherine. Parting breath. London, Collins, 1977. (New York, Doubleday, 1978) [Librarian is a victim in British college murders which starts with a student sit-in at the University of Calleshire.]
Alexander, Bruce. Blind justice. New York, Berkley, 1995. [Murder takes place in the private library of the victim.]
Alexander, Bruce (aka Bruce Cook). Murder in Grub Street. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. [Murder of a book publisher/printer.]
[Series set in 18th century London, features blind judge who is the brother of novelist Henry Fielding. Only books with a bibliomystery theme are included]
Allen, Garrison. Desert cat. New York, Kensington, 1994.
Allen, Garrison. Dinosaur cat. New York, Kensington, 1998.
[Allen's protagonist and her cat, Mycroft, own a bookstore in an eccentric Arizona small town. One recurring character is the town librarian, "quite simply, the sexiest librarian in all Christendom" (Royal cat, p. 36)]
Allingham, Margery. Flowers for the judge. New York, Carroll & GAF, 1995. [Murder rattles the skeletons in the closets of the distinguished publishers, Barnabas, Ltd. Originally published in 1936.]
Anderson, J. R. L. A sprig of sea lavender. New York, Dell, 1978?. [Scotland Yard inspector finds a clue in public library -- marginally bibliomystery.]
Andrews, Russell. Gideon. New York, Ballantine Books, 1999. (London, Little Brown, 1999) [A would-be novelist must find the murderer of his editor to clear his own name.]
Arthur, Robert. Larceny and old lace. In Mason, Cynthia & Scarborough, Constance (Eds.). Senior sleuths. New York, Berkeley, 1996. Originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1960. [2 elderly sisters inherit a house with "a sort of library-den".]
Asimov, Isaac. "The library book". In Isaac Asimov, The best mysteries of Isaac Asimov. New York, Doubleday, 1986. Also in Toth, Susan & John Coughlan (Eds.), Reading rooms. New York, Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 299-305. [Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991.]
Asimov, Isaac. Murder at the ABA. Garden City, Doubleday, 1976. [Who killed the author at the American Booksellers Association conference?]
Asimov, Isaac. The Union Club mysteries. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1985. [Griswald, one of four old gentlemen, entertains the rest in posh library of the Union Club with thirty short tales of intrigue and encourages them to solve his mysteries while he catnaps.]
Asimov, Isaac. "What's in a name". In Isaac Asimov, Asimov's mysteries (pp.54-70). New York, Fawcett Crest, 1968. [Murder of a librarian.]
Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity and the Duke. New York, Penguin, 1994.
Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity digs in. New York, Penguin, 1998. [A missing Victorian pamphlet could prove that an archaeological site is a fake.]
Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity's Christmas. New York, Penguin, 1999.
Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity's death. New York, Penguin, 1992. [Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was just a character in a family bedtime story until her last will and testament leaves instructions that she prepare a collection of "Aunt Dimity'' stories for publication. She uncovers important clues relating to a World War II mystery, as well as the ghost of Aunt Dimity.]
[Series character is usually involved with books and or things historic or academic, and Aunt Dimity, a ghost. Mystery without murder.]
Avallone, Michael. Dead game. New York, Holz, 1954. [About a Poe forgery.]
Avantiere, Sylvester. A rep for murder. New York, Avon, 1991. [Avon giveaway featuring an Avon book sales rep's life on the road.]

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Babson, Marian. Canapés for kitties. New York, St. Martin's, 1996. [About deaths in a writers' colony, with warnings from characters in their books.]
Babson, Marian. Murder on a mystery tour. New York, Bantam, 1988 (Weekend for murder. London, Collins, 1985). [Mystery author involved in death at mystery weekend sponsored by a Boston mystery bookstore. Marginally bibliomystery.]
Baker, Carlos. The Gay Head conspiracy. New York, Scribner, 1973. [Episodes in Widener and Lamont Libraries.]
Baldacci, David. Stone cold. New York, Vision, 2007. [One of the hero's co-conspirators works at the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.]
Ballinger, John. The Williamsburg forgeries. New York, St. Martin's, 1989.
[Lead character is antiquarian bookseller.]
Banbury, Jen. Like a hole in the head. New York, Warner, 1998. [Gen-X bookstore clerk buys a first edition Jack London book; funny Los Angeles mystery.]
Barnard, Robert. The case of the missing Brontë. New York, Scribner's, 1983. (UK: The missing Brontë). [Inspector searches for stolen ms, includes a librarian as one of the characters.]
Barnard, Robert. Death of a literary widow. New York, Dell, 1979. (UK: Posthumous papers). [A deceased novelist, his estate, and his sudden posthumous popularity lead to murder & mayhem.]
Barnard, Robert. Death of a mystery writer. New York, Dell, 1978. (UK: Unruly son). [The manuscript of the unpublished novel by Sir Oliver has disappeared and now his death appears to be other than accidental.]
Barnard, Robert. A hovering of vultures. New York, Scribner's, 1993. (New York, Scribner's 1993) [An author murdered in 1932, a shady, modern-day publisher and murder in the present-tense.]
Barnes, Linda. Cold case. New York, Dell, 1998. [Cabbie/detective Carlotta Carlyle investigates the long-ago suicide of a teen prodigy novelist, when a manuscript in her handwriting surfaces 24 years later.]
Barr, Robert. "Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune". In Godfrey, Thomas (Ed.), English country house murders (pp. 63-80). New York, Mysterious Press, 1989. [A will is hidden in a very strange library.]
Barrett, Lorna. Bookmarked for death. New York, Berkley, 2009.
Barrett, Lorna. Murder is binding.
[In the Booktown Mystery series.]
Bartram, George. Fair game. London, Futura, 1977. [Corporate librarian is drugged and kidnapped.]
Bassett, Sara Ware. Within the harbor. New York, Doubleday, 1948. [The acting town librarian finds out who is responsible for the missing copy of Shelley's Defense of Queen Charlotte.]
Baxt, George. Affair at Royalties. New York, International Polygonics, 1988. [Crime writer emerges from total amnesia to find she is suspected of murder.]
Baxt, George. A queer kind of death. New York, Signet, 1966. [One way to resolve the mystery might be found in the pages of a book being written about the deceased.]
Beasley, David. The grand conspiracy: A New York Library mystery. Buffalo, Davus Publishing, 1997. [Features NYPL security detective and library union leader.]
Beasley, David. The Jenny: A New York Library detective novel. Buffalo, Davus Publishing, 1994. [Based on real story of theft and recovery of rare stamps from the NYPL.]
Beinhart, Larry. The librarian. New York, National Books, 2004. [Features university librarian David Goldberg.]
Belfort, Sophie. Marvell College murders. New York, Fine, 1991. [Library and library staff involved.]
Bell, Quentin. The Brandon papers. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985. [Involves an autobiographical novel and memoirs.]
Bellairs, John. The mansion in the mist. New York, Dial, 1992.
Bellairs, John. The lamp from the warlock's tomb. New York, Bantam, 1989. [The fun begins when a librarian finds an old oil lamp. More YA fantasy than mystery.]
Bellairs, John. "The treasure of Alpheus Winterborn" [excerpts.]. In Susan Toth & John Coughlan (Eds.), Reading rooms. New York, Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 315-326. [Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991.]
Bennett, Alan. The uncommon reader. New York, Picador, 2007. [The queen's corgis stray into a bookmobile and she rediscovers reading.]
Berckman, Evelyn. The fourth man on the rope. New York, Doubleday, 1972. [Librarians/archivists involved in mystery.]
Berckman, Evelyn. The hovering darkness. New York, Dodd, 1957. [Detective bookseller, plot deals with extortion.]
Berry, Steve. The Alexandria link. New York, Ballantine, 2007. [Hunting for the lost Library of Alexandria.]
Berry, Steve. The Amber room. New York, Ballantine, 2003.
Berry, Steve. The Charlemagne pursuit. New York, Ballantine, 2009.
Berry, Steve. The Paris vendetta. New York, Ballantine, 2009.
Berry, Steve. The Romaniv prophecy. New York, Ballantine, 2005.
Berry, Steve. The Templar legacy. New York, Ballantine, 2007.
Berry, Steve. The third secret. New York, Ballantine, 2006. [Papal secretary explores mystery which begins in Vatican archives.]
Berry, Steve. The Venetian betrayal. New York, Ballantine, 2008.
Betts, Doris. Heading west. New York, Knopf, 1981. [Librarian kidnapped.]
Bingham, John. My name is Michael Sibley. New York, Penguin, 1958. [Newspaper reporter Michael Sibley narrates his own story of a murder investigation in which he is the prime suspect]
Bingham, Stella. Charters and Caldecott. New York, Penguin, 1986. [Bibliomystery based on the BBC tv serial.]
Bishop, Claudia. A dash of death. New York, Berkley, 1995.
Bishop, Claudia. Death dines out. New York, Berkley, 1997.
Bishop, Claudia. Marinade for murder. New York, Berkley, 2000.
Bishop, Claudia. A steak in murder. New York, Berkley, 1999.
Bishop, Claudia. A taste for murder. New York, Berkley, 1994.
Bishop, Claudia. A touch of the grape. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1998.
[Series characters are Sarah & Meg Quilliam, one of whom is a librarian, the other an innkeeper.]
Blackburn, John. Blue octavo. London, Panther, 1967. (US: Bound to kill) [About booksellers and libraries.]
Blackburn, John. Colonel Bogus (US: Packed for murder). London, Panther, 1969. [Rare book dealers.]
Blackstock, Charity. Dewey death. New York, Ballantine, 1985. [Murder at an international ILL clearinghouse.]
Blain, W. Edward. Passion play. New York, Avon, 1991. [The only clue is a torn receipt from a school bookstore.]
Blake, Nicholas (pseud. of Cecil Day Lewis). End of chapter. New York, Harper & Row, 1977. [Murder at a publishing house.]
Bleeck, Oliver [Ross Thomas]. No questions asked. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. [Features LC.]
Bloch, Robert. "The man who collected Poe". In His The complete stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1 (pp. 153-164). New York, Carol, 1987. [Short story about a rare book collector.]
Blochman, Lawrence G. "The Aldine folio murders". In The Dolphin, 4, 1 (1940). [A typographically-minded detective uses a forged copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili as his best clue.] [GSLIS ZX119 .D66.]
Blochman, Lawrence G. "Death walks in marble halls". In Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (Eds.), Chapter & hearse: Suspense stories about the world of books. New York, William Morrow, 1985, pp. 103-169. [Murder in the NYPL, also a movie: Quiet please, murder.]
Block, Lawrence. The burglar in the closet. New York, Penguin, 1981.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar in the library. New York, Dutton, 1997. [Loving words on books and libraries, but the library serves only as the locale]
Block, Lawrence. The burglar in the rye. New York, Signet, 2000.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar who liked to quote Kipling. New York, Pocket Books, 1983.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar who painted like Mondrian. New York, Arbor House, 1983.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar who studied Spinoza. New York, Pocket Books, 1982.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar who thought he was Bogart. New York, Onyx, 1996.
Block, Lawrence. The burglar who traded Ted Williams. New York, Dutton, 1994.
Block, Lawrence. Burglars can't be choosers. New York, Onyx, 1995.
Block, Lawrence. Some days you get the bear. New York, William Morrow, 1993. [Short stories, not including Rhodenbarr.]
[Block's character, Bernie Rhodenbarr, deals in rare books.]
Bonnamy, Francis. Dead reckoning. New York, Duel, 1943. [Murder in the Library of Congress.]
Bontly, Thomas. Celestial chess. New York, Harper & Row, 1979. [Investigation of manuscript in Cambridge college library.]
Borowitz, Albert. The Jack The Ripper Walking Tour mystery. New York, St.Martin's, 1986. [Professor, collector of books, manuscripts and ephemera related to true crime history and his wife, an Agatha Christie buff and art historian, encounter murder in London during the centennial of Jack the Ripper's bloody crimes.]
Borthwick, J. S. Bridled groom. New York, St. Martin's, 1994. [Are the two retired children's librarians on a murder spree?]
Borthwick, J. S. Dolly is dead. New York, St. Martin's, 1995. [Librarian among cast of characters.]
Borthwick, J. S. The down east murders. New York, St. Martin's, 1985. [Small town NE library's painting is one of several stolen.]
Borthwick, J. S. The student body. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1986. [Murder on a college campus, denouement in the library.]
Bosse, Malcolm. The man who loved zoos. New York, Putnam, 1974. [Librarian solves murder mystery.]
Boucher, Anthony. "QL696. C9". In Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (Eds.), Chapter & hearse: Suspense stories about the world of books. New York, William Morrow, 1985, pp. 223-239. Also in Toth, Susan & John Coughlan (Eds.), Reading rooms (New York, Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 284-298, Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991) and Cart, Michael (Ed.), In the stacks (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002). [Spy thriller in a library.]
Boyer, Rick. The penny ferry. New York, Warner Books, 1986. [Investigating several brutal murders leads to a cache of documents rumored to concern the Sacco and Vanzetti case.]
Boylan, Eleanor. Murder crossed. New York, Henry Holt, 1996.
Boylan, Eleanor. Working murder. New York, Ivy Books, 1992.
[Boylan's series continues the work of her aunt Elizabeth Daly, following the exploits of rara book consultant Henry Gamadge's widow Clara.]
Brady, Liz. Sudden blow. Toronto, Second Story, 1998. [Irreverent writer on "big business" is hired to discover who really murdered a real estate baron.]
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who ate Danish modern. New York, Jove, 1986. [2nd copy in three-novel collection titled "The cat who..."]
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who blew the whistle. New York, Jove, 1996.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who came to breakfast. New York, Jove, 1994.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who could read backwards. New York, Dorset, 1991. [In three-novel collection titled "The cat who..."]
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who knew a cardinal. New York, Putnam's, 1991.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who knew Shakespeare. New York, Jove, 1988.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who lived high. New York, Jove, 1991.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who moved a mountain. New York, Jove, 1992.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who played Brahms. New York, Berkley, 1987.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who played post office. New York, Jove, 1987.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who robbed a bank. New York, Jove, 2000.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who said cheese. New York, Jove, 1997.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who sang for the birds. New York, Jove, 1999.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who saw red. New York, Jove, 1986.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who saw stars. New York, Jove, 2000.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who smelled a rat. Nw York, Jove, 2002.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who sniffed glue. New York, Jove, 1988.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who tailed a thief. New York, Putnam, 1997.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who talked to ghosts. New York, Jove, 1990.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who talked turkey.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who turned on and off. New York, Dutton, 1968. [In three-novel collection titled "The cat who..."]
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who wasn't there. New York, Jove, 1993.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who went bananas. New York, Jove, 2006
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who went into the closet. New York, Jove, 1994.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who went up the creek. New York, Jove, 2003.
Braun, Lillian Jackson. The cat who went underground. New York, Jove, 1989.
[Braun's protagonist, Jim Qwilleran, has a woman friend, Polly Duncan, who is the local librarian, and is featured in some of the books.]
Breen, Jon. "The Dewey damsel system". Wilson Library Bulletin, 45 (April 1971): 770-771. [Spoof.]
Breen, Jon L. The gathering place. New York, Walker, 1984. [Murder in a used bookstore - L.A. bookshop owner becomes involved after discovering some curious facts about an early Hollywood writer.]
Brill, Toni. Date with a plummeting publisher. New York, Worldwide, 1993. [Did the literary agent fall, or was he pushed?]
Bristow, Gwen & Bruce Manning. The Gutenberg murders. New York, Mystery League, 1932. [Rivalry over library directorship in Sheldon Memorial Library, New Orleans.]
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the book. New York, Viking, 2008. [Traces the journey of a Haggadah. Really more a novel than a mystery, but sufficient of a mystery to be included.]
Brown, Dan. Angels & demons.
Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci code.
Brown, Dan. The lost symbol. London, Corgi, 2009. [The escape though the underground book-shunting system at L of C is fun.
[Brown's Opus Dei conspiracy novels involve library and/or archival research.]
Brown, Frederic. Murder can be fun. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1989.
Bruce, Leo. Neck and neck. Chicago, Academy, 1982. [Unpopular publisher murdered.]
Burke, Jan. Dear Irene. New York, Pocket Books, 2003. [Library and newspaper archive research is involved. Signed by the authour at ALA 2003.]
Byatt, A.S. Possession: A romance. New York, Vintage,, 1991. [A bibliomystery sans murder. Booker Prize, 1990.]

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Caldwell, Ian & Dustin Thomason. The rule of four. New York, Dell, 2005. [Not only is the mystery centered on a Renaissance text, but the text is printed by Aldus Manutius, the 16th century Venetian printer who is almost a patron saint to librarians.]
Cameron, Dana. A fugitive truth. New York, Avon, 2004. [A diary is at the center of the mystery.]
Campbell, Julie. Ginny Gordon and the lending library. Racine, Whitman, 1944. [Juvenile, about theft from a lending library.]
Campbell, R. T. [Ruthven Todd]. Bodies in a bookshop. New York, Dover, 1984. [Murder in the bookselling world.]
Candy, Edward. Bones of contention. New York, Ballantine, 1954. [Features "deeply ambitious librarian" Dr. Victor Pounceforth.]
Candy, Edward. Words for murder perhaps. New York, Ballantine, 1971. [University librarian figures in tale of murder.]
Cannell, Dorothy. How to murder the man of your dreams. New York, MysteryBooks, 1995. [A case of a poisoned model and a dead librarian.]
Cannell, Dorothy. The thin woman. New York, Bantam, 1992. [Because she needs an escort, overweight interior designer Ellie Simo hires Ben Haskell, an aspiring writer of steamy novels, to accompany her on a visit to her uncle's estate. When Ellie's uncle dies, she and Ben must face a challenge. In order to collect her inheritance, she must lose more than 60 pounds and he must write a book without a single word of smut in it.]
Canning, Victor. Memory boy. Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black, 1981. (Bound with two other novels for Detective Book Club) [The boy in question's father is a prominent bookseller.]
Cape, Tony. The Cambridge theorem. New York, Doubleday, 1989. [Involves files about famous unsolved cases.]
Carlisle, Kate. Homicide in hardcover (Large print ed., signed by the author). Waterville, ME, Wheeler Chivers, 2009.
Carlisle, Kate. If books could kill. New York, New American Library, 2010.
Carlisle, Kate. Peril in paperback. New York, New American Library, 2012.
[Carlisle's Bibliophile Mystery series features rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright.]
Carlson, P. M. Murder is academic. New York, Avon, 1985. [Marginally about books.]
Carrell, J.L. the Shakespeare secret. London, Sphere, 2007. [Who is enacting Shaksepearean murders?]
Carter, Diana. The ghost writer. London, Cassell, 1974. [Manuscript is used to solve a murder.]
Carr, J. D. He who whispers. New York, Bantam, 1957. [Historian hires a young woman to catalog his uncle's large private library; several murders follow]
Carr, J. D. The dead man's knock. New York, Bantam, 1960. [Personal library has small part in mystery.]
Carr, J. D. House at Satan's elbow. New York, International Polygonics, 1987. [Locked room mystery involving murder in stately home library.]
Cart, Michael (Ed.). In the stacks. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002. Contains Boucher, Anthony, "QL696. C9", pp. 151-171.[Spy thriller in a library.]
Case, John. The genesis code. New York, Ballantine, 1997. [LEXIS/NEXIS contributes to the solution of a strange series of arson murders.]
Chandler, Raymond. The big sleep. New York, Knopf, 1939. [Bookstore is front for pornography ring.]
Charles, Kate. Appointed to die. New York, Mysterious, 1993. [Library is part of setting.]
Christie, Agatha. The body in the library. New York, Pocket Books, 1965. [It's a library in someone's house, and that's the only time the library appears.]
Christie, Agatha. The mysterious affair at Styles. Toronto, Bantam, 1961. [A burned fragment of parchment, the murder victim's several wills and her last three letters figure into the plot.]
Christie, Agatha. Postern of fate. New York, Bantam, 1974. [Tuppence Beresford discovers clues to a First World War murder in a children's book he finds in the attic.]
Christie, Agatha. Secret of chimneys. New York, Dell, 1978. [Climactic scene in library.]
Claire, Edie. Never buried. New York, Signet, 1999. [Brief library research scene.]
Clarke, Anna. The lady in black. New York, Berkley, 1990. [A strange manuscript arrives at a London publisher in 1882 and contains enough real details to make the reader, Mr. George Meredith himself, fear it is no less than a confession of murder.]
Clarke, Anna. Last judgement. Garden City, Charter, 1989. [Are a renowned author's private papers worth killing for?]
Clarke, Anna. Plot counter-plot. New York, Charter, 1990. [Two mystery novelists after each other's plots.]
Clarke, Anna. Soon she must die. Garden City, NY, Charter, 1988. [Bibliomystery in which heroine "borrows" from the plot of Henry James' Wings of a dove.]
Clarke, T. E. B. Murder at Buckingham Palace. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981. [Solution lies in palace library.]
Cleeves, Ann. The mill on the shore. New York, Fawcett, 1994. [An apparent suicide's magnum opus is missing.]
Clemeau, Carol. The Ariadne clue. New York, Scribner's, 1982. [Crime is solved using libraries.]
Cline, Edward. First prize. NY, Mysterious Press, 1988. [A literary award winner goes missing.]
Coel, Margaret. The spirit woman. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2000. [Bibliomystery involving the lost memoirs and archival records of Sacajewea.]
Collins, Max Allan. Kill your darlings. New York, Tor, 1988. [Murder of a mystery writer at the Chicago Bouchercon.]
Collins, Max Allan. A nice weekend for a murder. New York, Tor, 1986. [Murder among mystery writers and buffs at weekend retreat in New York State. Signed by the author]
Collins, Max Allan. A shroud for Aquarius. New York, Tor, 1985. [Detective story writer investigates apparent suicide of his childhood friend.]
Connelly, Michael. The poet. New York, Warner, 1996. [A brilliant killer who leaves poetic clues.]
Constantine, K. C. Bottom liner blues. New York, Mysterious, 1994. [Russian novelist and librarian number among cast.]
Cooley, Martha. The archivist. Little, Brown, 1998. [Archivist/librarian Matthias Lane is the literary guardian of a controversial sealed cache of T.S. Eliot letters.]
Cornwell, Patricia. Body of evidence. New York, Avon, 1991. [Murder of a novelist; brief appearance of a library.]
Cory, Desmond. Bennett. London, macmillan, 1977. [A mystery writer disappears after he is suspected of murder.]
Craig, Philip R. A case of Vineyard poison. New York, Avon, 1995. [Includes a great quote about the goodness of libraries and librarians.]
Craig, Philip R. Death on a Vineyard beach. New York, Avon, 1996. ["I am fond of libraries because they're full of information and people who actually like to help you find it. Just as there is no bad beer, there are no bad libraries, although some are better than others" (p.165).]
Craig, Philip R. A shoot on Martha's Vineyard. New York, Avon, 1998.
Craig, Philip R. The woman who walked into the sea. New York, Avon, 1991. [Plagiarism, involves library.]
Crais, Robert. Stalking the angel. New York, Bantam, 1989. [Theft of a rare 13th century Japanese ms., the Hagakure]
Crider, Bill. A dangerous thing. New York, Worldwide, 1996. [Protagonist's paramour is a college librarian.]
Crispin, Edmund. Love lies bleeding, New York, Penguin, 1982. [A rare literary treasure has the power to turn scholars into murderers.]
Crombie, Deborah. Dreaming of the bones. New York, Bantam, 1998. [Feminist biographer looks into poet's apparent suicide and is soon murdered.]
Cross, Amanda. The James Joyce murder. New York, Macmillan, 1967. [Cataloger of literary archives solves murder.]
Cross, Amanda. No word from Winifred. New York, Ballantine, l987. [With no more to go on than her missing friend's journal, Kate follows a trail leading from Oxford to an MLA convention in NYC.]
Cross, Amanda. The players come again. New York, Ballantine, 1991. [While digging into the Foxx family's background for a biography she is commissioned to write, Kate uncovers a most complex secret.]
Cross, Amanda. The question of Max. New York, Knopf, 1976. [Murder around an author's literary remains.] [Beatley PS3553. R57Q6.]
Cross, Amanda. A trap for fools. New York, Ballantine, 1990.
[Academic series featuring highly literate professor Kate Fansler. Not all be bibliomysteries.]
Curran, Terrie. All booked up. Toronto, Worldwide, 1989. [Murder involving book theft from Smedley Library.]
Cushing, E. Louise. Blood on my rug. New York, Arcadia, 1956. [Bookseller detective.]
Cussler, Clive. The navigator. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007. [Includes clues in a packet of Jefferson documents.]
Cutler, Judith. Dying by the book. London, Headline, 2001. [Murder at a literary festival.]
Cutler, Judith. Dying to deceive. London, Headline, 2003. [Why are items going missing from the archives at the cricket club?]
Cutler, Ronald. The secret scroll. New York, Beaufort Books, 2007. [Professor discovers an ancient scroll which seems to have been written by Jesus. Mayhem ensues.]

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Daheim, Mary. Just desserts. New York, Avon Books, 1991. [Protagonist happens to be librarian, but not currently practicing, and it's incidental.]
Daly, Elizabeth. And dangerous to know. New York, Bantam, 1984.
Daly, Elizabeth. Any shape or form. New York, Berkley, 1964.
Daly, Elizabeth. Arrow pointing nowhere. New York, Dell, 1972.
Daly, Elizabeth. The book of the crime. New York, Rinehart, 1951.
Daly, Elizabeth. The book of the lion. New York, Rinehart, 1948.
Daly, Elizabeth. Deadly nightshade. New York, Berkley, 1963.
Daly, Elizabeth. Death and letters. New York, Berkley, 1950.
Daly, Elizabeth. Evidence of things seen. New York, Bantam, 1945.
Daly, Elizabeth. The house without the door. New York, Superior Reprint, 1945.
Daly, Elizabeth. Murders in volume 2. New York, Rinehart, 1941.
Daly, Elizabeth. Night walk. New York, Dell, 1967. [Town librarian is murdered.]
Daly, Elizabeth. Nothing can rescue me. New York, Bantam, 1946.
Daly, Elizabeth. Somewhere in the house. New York, Bantam, 1984.
Daly, Elizabeth. The wrong way down. New York, Rinehart, 1946.
[Daly's protagonist, Henry Gamadge, is a rare book/manuscript consultant.]
Dams, Jeanne M. The body in the transept. New York, Harper, 1996. [Who murdered the church librarian?]
Davey, Jocelyn. A touch of stagefright. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1963. [Features the NYPL.]
Davey, Jocelyn. A treasury alarm. New York, Avon, 1976. [While investigating the authenticity of a Donatello statue of John the Baptist, Usher conflicts with Boston's Irish underground]
[Ambrose Usher, Oxford don in Davey's series, solves literary mysteries.]
Davidson, Diane Mott. Prime cut. New York, Bantam, 2000. [Are people being murdered because of the old cookbook taken from the historical society library?]
Davila, Randy. The Gnostic mystery. San Antonio, TK, Hierophant, 2009. [Thinly veiled religious discourse based on manuscript which keep disappearing.]
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury. Mrs. Norris visits the library. In Mason, Cynthia & Scarborough, Constance (Eds.). Senior sleuths. New York, Berkeley, 1996. Originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1959. [Despite the title, she never actually makes it beyond a bench outside -- a key location for the action.]
Davis, Kevin. Words can kill. New York, Fawcett, 1984. [One murdered writer and four fellow writers as suspects.]
Davis, Lavinia R. Reference to death. New York, Doubleday, 1950. [Stillbridge Memorial Library (Connecticut) librarian is murdered.]
Davis, Lindsey. Alexandria. New York, Minotaur, 2009. [A Roman mysterey in which the director of the great library dies while our hero is visiting. Wonderful descriptions of the library, its patrons, and the staff.]
DC Comics. Phantom of the library. December 1945. DC 106 [Batman and Robin and the Dewey Decimal Classification.]
De la Torre, Lillian. Dr. Sam Johnson, detector. New York, International Polygonics, 1983 (reprint of New York, Knopf, 1946). [Short stories - all bookish, one involving library.]
Dean, S. F. X. By frequent anguish. Doherty, 1986. [Murder in a New England college library.]
Dean, S. F. X. It can't be my grave. New York, Walker, 1984. [The Elizabethan play "Arden of Feversham" may have been written by a woman; but what is its connection with the murder of its "sponsor", the eccentric British millionaire industrialist, Gordon Fairly?]
Delving, Michael. Bored to death [UK: A wave of fatalities.]. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1975.
Delving, Michael. The devil finds work. New York, Scribner, 1969.
Delving, Michael. Die like a man. New York, Scribner, 1970.
Delving, Michael. Smiling the boy fell dead. New York, Belmont, 1971.
[Delving's protagonists are Connecticut antique dealers/booksellers.]
Dereske, Jo. Bookmarked to die. New York, Avon, 2006.
Dereske, Jo. Catalogue of death. New York, Avon, 2007.
Dereske, Jo. Final notice. New York, Avon, 1998.
Dereske, Jo. Index to murder. New York, Avon, 2008.
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas and the island murders. New York, Avon, 1995.
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas and the library murders. New York, Avon, 1994. [A dead body in the fiction stacks.]
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas and the raven's dance. New York, Avon, 1996.
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas and the stroke of death. New York, Avon, 1995.
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas in death's shadow. New York, Avon, 1999.
Dereske, Jo. Miss Zukas shelves the evidence. New York, Avon, 2001.
Dereske, Jo. Out of circulation. New York, Avon, 1997.
[Miss Zukas is a librarian in Bellehaven, Washington.]
DeWeese, Jean. The doll with the opal eyes. New York, Doubleday, 1976. [Public library.]
DeWeese, Jean. Hour of the cat. New York, Doubleday, 1980. [Public library.]
Dewey, Thomas B. Dame in danger. New York, Signet, 1958. (Draw the curtain close, New York, Jefferson House, 1947) [Pursuit of a lost Gutenberg Bible.]
Dexter, Colin. The way through the woods. New York, Ivy Books, 1992. [Inspector Morse solves a literary and letter-based mystery using library sources.]
Dexter, Colin. The wench is dead. New York, Bantam, 1991. [While recovering in hospital from an ulcer attack, cantankerous Inspector Morse uses the services of Christine Greenaway, an attractive librarian to do his historical research in order to correct a miscarriage of justice in a murder case dating from 1859.]
Dickinson, Peter. Hindsight. London, Bodley, 1983. (New York, Pantheon, 1983) [While doing research for a biography of a Hemingway-like author, English mystery writer becomes involved in a deadly 40 year-old mystery.]
Dickinson, Peter. Some deaths before dying. New York, Mysterious press, 1999. [Cited in Keen's Romances of the archive.]
Dobson, Joanne. Cold and pure and very dead. New York, Bantam, 2001. [English professor Karen Pelletier investigates murder and mayhem surrounding a controversial book.]
Dobson, Joanne. Maltese manuscript. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Dobson, Joanne. The Northbury papers. New York, Bantam, 1999. [Who has the unpublished novel of Serena Northbury?]
Dobson, Joanne. Quieter than sleep. New York, Bantam, 1998. [Library features as locale.]
Dobson, Joanne. The raven and the nightingale. New York, Bantam, 2000. [Murder of an ambitious Edgar Allan Poe scholar; involves the disappearance of a journal by a (fictitious) contemporary of Poe.]
Dobyns, Steven. Saratoga hexameter. New York, Penguin, 1990. [Three cases, each involving very bad poetry and a colleague's death, in which a poem written in iambic hexameter will provide a clue.]
Doherty, P.C. A tapestry of murders. London, Headline, 1994. [On the day of Queen Isabella's burial her trusted squire attempts to flee carrying a manuscript that could discredit the English king and create a scandal.]
Dolson, Hildegarde. Please omit funeral. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1975. [Murder over censorship in a high school library.]
Donoghue, Emma. The sealed letter: A novel. Orlando, Harcourt, 2008. [Involves a suffragette printing company and a sealed letter.]
Douglas, Carole Nelson. Catnap. New York, Tor Books, 1992. [Baker and Taylor are catnapped, Midnight Louie (a cat) helps solve the mystery.]
Drake, Alison. Black moon. New York, Ballantine, 1989.
Drake, Alison. Fevered. New York, Ballantine, 1988.
Drake, Alison. Tango Key. New York, Ballantine, 1988.
[Features police detective and bookstore owner Aline Scott.]
DuMaurier, Daphne. The flight of the falcon. New York, Pocket, 1966. [A gothic mystery set in Italy and a tour guide turned college librarian who solves a murder with roots going back 500 years]
Dunning, John. Booked to die. London, Allen & Busby, 1993.
Dunning, John. The bookman's wake. New York, Pocket, 1995. [People are killing for a book that may not exist.]
Dunning, John. The bookwoman's last fling. New York, Pocket Books, 2007.
[Protagonist is a detective turned bookstore owner.]
Dutton, Charles J. Murder in a library. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1931. [Murder in a municipal library.]
Dutton, Charles J. Streaked with crimson. New York, Collier, 1929. [Local librarian helps solve murder mystery.]

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Easterman, Daniel. The Judas testament. New York, HarperCollins, 1994. [Political thriller involving manuscript found in Lenin Library.]
Eberhart, Mignon G. Witness at large. New York, Popular Library, 1966. [Involves sale of a publishing company, and a historical novelist whose books are no longer in vogue].
Eco, Umberto. The name of the rose. New York, Warner, 1983. [Murder and a great mediaeval library.]
also Haft, Sdele J., Jane G. White, & Robert J. White. The key to The name of the rose. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Edwards, Ruth D. Clubbed to death. New York, St. Martin's, 1992. [Former librarian among cast of characters.]
Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Face down upon an herbal. New York, Kensington, 1998. [In Elizabethan England, work on a botanical book stirs up murder.]
Estleman, Loren. Sugartown. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1984. [An eminent Russian novelist fears that someone is trying to wipe out his next book by erasing its author.]
Estleman, Loren D. A web of books. In Mason, Cynthia & Scarborough, Constance (Eds.). Senior sleuths. New York, Berkeley, 1996. Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 1982. [Involves a rare book collector and a stolen book.]
Evans, John. Halo for Satan. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. [Should the Bishop of Chicago purchase a manuscript in the handwriting of Christ for twenty-five million dollars? Hey, why not? Murders ensue.]

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Faherty, Terence. Live to regret. New York, Worldwide, 1995. [Involves local historian Claire Dial and library research.]
Faherty, Terence. The lost Keats. New York, Worldwide, 1996. [A seminary student looks into the disappearance of a classmate; a lost Keats sonnet may lie at the heart of the mystery.]
Fairstein, Linda. Lethal legacy. New York, Doubelday, 2009. [Involves the New York Public Library.]
Fasman, Jon. The geographer's library. New York, Penguin, 2005. [12th centruy library artifacts cause 20th century mystery.]
Feiffer, Jules. Ackroyd. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1977. [Mystery in the world of publishing.]
Fenisong, Ruth. But not forgotten. New York, Doubleday, 1960. [Greenwich Village bookstore.]
Fenster, Robert. The last page. Perseverance Press, 1988. [Editor helps catch killer of a mystery editor]
Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre affair. London, Penguin, 2003. [Also available Beatley PR6106.O73E97 2002]
Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a good book. London, Penguin, 2004. [Available Beatley PR6106.F67T48 2003]
Fforde, Jasper. Something rotten. London, Penguin, 2005.
Fforde, Jasper. The well of lost plots. London, Penguin, 2004.
[Alternate reality series featuring literary detective Thursday Next. She polices text against unscrupulos plt shifters and time twisters and the evil mega-corporation Goliath.]
Fink, John. Libel the dead. New York, Worldwide Library, 1994. (New York, St. Martin's, 1992) [New York magazine editor.]
Fiske, Dorsey. Academic murder. New York, St. Martin's, 1986. [Murder among librarians at Cambridge.]
Fiske, Dorsey. Bound to murder. New York, Lorevan, 1989. [Murder associated with an English university library.]
Fitzwater, Judy. Dying to get published. New York, Fawcett Crest, 2001. [Aspiring murder-mystery novelist finds real-life murder.]
Fleming, Anne. Death and deconstruction. New York, St. Martin's, 1995. [Involves a long-lost Byron memoir.]
Fleming, Joan. Nothing is the number when you die. Glasgow, Fontana, 1976. [Includes visit to Blackwells.]
Fletcher, Jessica & Donald Bain. Gin and daggers. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1991. [Murder and the annual convention of an international mystery writers' association.]
Follett, Ken. The key to Rebecca. New York, Signet, 1981. [The novel Rebecca is the key to breaking a code.]
Ford, Corey, see Riddell, John
Ford, Leslie. By the watchman's clock. New York, Pocket Books, 1940. [Death in college library.]
Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May and the invisible code. London, Doubleday, 2012.
[Fowler's eccentric Arthur Bryant often calls in on unusual libraries and archives.]
Francis, Dick. Longshot. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1992. [Writer of survival handbooks is under attack after he takes on the biography of a famous British racehorse trainer.]
Fraser, Antonia. A splash of red. London, Mandarin, 1990. [Involves a publisher.]
Freeling, Nicolas. Cold iron. London, Penguin, 1988.
Friedman, Mickey. Temporary ghost. New York, Viking, 1989. [Ghostwriter deals with murder in the French countryside.]
Frimmer, Steven. Dead matter. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. [Publisher involved in missing manuscript and editor's murder.]
Fuller, Roy. The second curtain. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1962. [Publishing world, scenes in the British Library.]
Fuller, Timothy. Three thirds of a ghost. Boston, Little, 1941. [Murder at Boston's Bromfield Bookstore.]

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Garve, Andrew. The Galloway case. New York, Lancer, 1964. [Murder of a blackmailing librarian.]
Gash, Joe, see Granger, Bill
Gibbs, Tony. Shadow queen. New York, Mysterious, 1992. [Author investigates famous "Casket Letters" of Mary, Queen of Scots.]
Gifford, Thomas. The Glendower legacy. New York, Putnam's Sons, 1978. [The discovery of historical documents proving that George Washington contacted the English during the harrowing winter of 1778 leads to murder and more.]
Gifford, Thomas. The wind chill factor. New York, Ballantine, 1976. [Town library is blown up and librarian murdered.]
Gifford, Thomas. The assassini. New York, Bantam, 1991. [Involves research in the Vatican archives.]
Gill, B. M. Seminar for murder. Sevenoaks, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. [Murder at a mystery writers' weekend seminar.]
Gill, Bartholomew. The death of a Joyce scholar. New York, Avon, 1990. [Death in the Dublin literary and publishing world.]
Gill, Bartholomew. Death of an ardent bibliophile. New York, Avon, 1995. [Murder of a librarian.]
Gill, Bartholomew. Death of an Irish sinner. New York, William Morrow, 2001. [An author is murdered and the manuscript is missing - was it the mysterious religious order, or a matter of revenge?]
Gilman, Dorothy. The unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1966. [Spy makes contact in bookstore.]
Girdner, Jaqueline. Death hits the fan. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999. [An author dies at a bookstore reading.]
Goddard, Robert. Hand in glove. [Involves archives.]
Godden, Rumer. China Court. New York, Dell, 1962. [The medieval Book of Hours plays a part in the plot.]
Golding. William. Darkness visible. New York, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1979. [Characters drift in and out of bookstore.] [Beatley PR6013.O35 D3.]
Gonzalez, Gloria. The thirteenth apostle. New York, St. Martin's, 1993. [Newspaper reporter's best friend has been killed because of his research; now it's become her dangerous project.]
Goodrum, Charles A. The best cellar. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987.
Goodrum, Charles A. Carnage of the realm. New York, Harper & Row, 1979.
Goodrum, Charles A. Dewey decimated. New York, Crown Publishers, 1977. Beatley PS3557.O59D49.
Goodrum, Charles A. A slip of the tong. New York, St. Martin's, 1992.
[Goodrum's main character is a library consultant, the stories revolve around the Werner Bok Library, a major research library on the Mall in DC.]
Gordon, Alison. Dead pull hitter. New York, Onyx, 1991.
Gordon, Alison. Prairie hardball. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1998.
[Series features Kate Henry, baseball writer for the Titans]
Gosling, Paula. The body in Blackwater Bay. New York, Mysterious Press, 1992.
Gosling, Paula. Monkey puzzle. Londonb, Macmillan, 1985. [Publish and perish in nasty academe.]
Gosling, Paula. Underneath every stone. New York, Warner, 2001.
[The town librarian makes appearances in Gosling's Blackwater Bay series.]
Grafton, Sue. G is for gumshoe. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1990. [Clues are found in the public library and county records.]
Granger, Ann. Say it with poison. New York, Avon, 1991. [Librarian has minor part in providing clue.]
Granger, Ann. A touch of mortality. London, Headline, 1996. [Why are "distraught librarians" descending on the Bamford police station?]
Green, Anna K. The sLeavenworth case. New York, Dover, 1981. [Man murdered in his library.]
Greenbaum, Leonard. Out of shape. New York, Harper & Row, 1969. [Professor's death linked to library research.]
Greenleaf, Stephen. Book case. New York, Bantam, 1991. [Protagonist has to do research in a law library.]
Grierson, Edward. A crime of one's own. New York, Putnam 1967. [Spy ring in lending library.]
Grimes, Martha. The Five Bells and Bladebone. Boston, Little Brown, 1987. [A dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretary desk putting, among others, Thom Wren Browne owner of Long Pidd's bookshop, under suspicion of murder.]
Grimes, Martha. Jerusalem Inn. New York, 1984.
Grimes, Martha. The Old Contemptibles. New York, Ballantine, 1991. [Amateur sleuth poses as librarian to investigate murder.]
Grossman, Lev. Codex. New York, Harcourt, 2004. [Banker finds mystery in ancient book.]
Gruber, Frank. The buffalo box. New York, Bantam, 1946.
Gruber, Frank. Murder '97. London, Barker, 1956.
Gruber, Frank. Swing low, swing dead. New York, Belmont, 1970.
[Gruber's series characters are involved in the rare book and manuscript world.]
Gur, Batya. Literary murder. New York, Harper Perennial, 1993. [Professor murdered in Hebrew University Library.]

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Haddad, C. A. Caught in the shadows. New York, Worldwide, 1994. [Main character does online research.]
Haddam, Jane. A great day for the deadly. New York, Bantam, 1992. [Scenes in a library.]
Haldeman, Joe. The Hemingway hoax. New York, Avon, 1990. [Professor Baird is conned into committing a forgery.]
Hall, James W. Rough draft. New York, St.Martins, 2000. [Crime writer Hannah Keller becomes the bait to get a killer.]
Halliday, Brett. Date with a dead man. New York, Dodd, mead, 1959. [A diary is at the center of the mysteries.]
Hamilton, Henrietta. Death at one blow. London, Hodder, 1957.
[Series characters are antiquarian bookdealers.]
Hamilton, Lyn. The Xibalba murders. New York, Berkley, 1997. [Library research and helpful librarian help find murderer.].
Hammond, Marc. The Theseus code. New York, Jove, 1984. [A Nazi legacy rises from the past.]
Handler, David. The man who would be F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York, Bantam, 1990. (New York, Doubleday, 1993). [Protagonist writes an expose of the dirty business behind megabuck book deals.]
Hansen, Joseph. Death claims. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. [Rare book world in southern California.]
Hansen, Joseph. Skinflick. New York, Henry Holt, 1980. [Was the dead man really the angry, anti-porn crusading, bookshop trashing fundamentalist everyone thought he was?.]
Harding, Paul. Murder most holy. London, Headline, 1992. [Librarian among victims.]
Harris, Charlaine. A bone to pick. New York, Worldwide, 1994. [Has the school librarian murdered someone?]
Harris, Charlaine. Dead over heels. New York, Worldwide, 1998.
Harris, Charlaine. The Julius house. New York, Berkley, 2008.
Harris, Charlaine. Last scene alive. New York, Worldwide, 2003.
Harris, Charlaine. Poppy done to death. New York, Worldwide, 2004.
Harris, Charlaine. Real murders. New York, Walker, 1990.
Harris, Charlaine. Three bedrooms, one corpse. New York, Worldwide, 1995.
[Librarian Aurora Teagarden is heroine; limited view of librarianship.]
Harris, Robert. Archangel. London, Arrow, 1999. [An Oxford historian is on the trail of a secret notebook kept by Josef Stalin.]
Harriss, Will. The Bay Psalm Book murder. New York, Walker, 1983. Library also has Detective Book Club edition bound with two other mysteries. [Special collections librarian at LA PL is murdered. "All they left was a dead librarian with a rare book in his hand. And what's one librarian more or less?" (p. 7)]
Hart, Carolyn. April fool dead. New York, Avon, 2002.
Hart, Carolyn. The Christie caper. New York, Bantam, 1992.
Hart, Carolyn. Dead days of summer. Uncorrected proof. New York, William Morrow, 2006.
Hart, Carolyn. Deadly valentine. New York, Bantam, 1991.
Hart, Carolyn. Death on demand. New York, Bantam, 1987.
Hart, Carolyn. Design for murder. New York, Bantam, 1988.
Hart, Carolyn. Honeymoon with murder. New York, Bantam, 1989.
Hart, Carolyn. A little class on murder. New York, Bantam, 1989.
Hart, Carolyn. Mint julep murder. New York, Bantam, 1995.
Hart, Carolyn. Murder walks the plank. New York, Avon, 2005.
Hart, Carolyn. Something wicked. New York, Bantam, 1988.
Hart, Carolyn. Southern ghost. New York, Bantam, 1993.
Hart, Carolyn. Sugarplum dead. New York, Avon, 2000.
Hart, Carolyn. White elephant dead. New York, Avon, 1999.
Hart, Carolyn. Yankee doodle dead. New York, Avon/Twilight, 1998.
[Hart's female protagonist owns a mystery bookstore.]
Harvey, John. Living proof. New York, St. Martin's, 1996. [Who wants to murder the mystery writer?.]
Harvey, Virginia. "The clue on the flyleaf". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 415 (June 1978): 59-68. [Two friends find a clue in a library.]
Harwin, Patricia. Arson and old lace. New York, Pocket Books, 2004.
Harwin, Patricia. Slaying is such sweet sorrow.
[The main character in this is Far Wychwood series is a retired librarian.]
Hautman, Pete. Drawing dead. New York, Pocket Books, 1997. [Involves a $12 million rare comic book collection that just might not exist.]
Havighurst, Marion Boyd. Murder in the stacks. Oxford (OH), Miami University, 1989. [Murder in a college library.]
Haynes, Conrad. Bishop's gambit declined. New York, Bantam, 1987. [Academic mystery - some scenes in library.]
Heidish, Marcy. The torching. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1992. [Only marginally a bibliomystery.]
Heller, Richard & Rachel. The 13th apostle. New York, Harper, 2007. [A 12th century monk's diary starts the mystery.]
Herndon, Nancy. Lethal statues. New York, Berkley, 1996. [Student killed in campus library.]
Hess, Joan. Dear Miss Demeanor. New York, Ballantine, 1987.
Hess, Joan. A diet to die for. New York, Ballantine, 1989.
Hess, Joan. A holly, jolly murder. New York, Onyx, 1998.
Hess, Joan. Murder at the Mimosa Inn. New York, Ballantine, 1986.
Hess, Joan. Poisoned pins. New York, Onyx, 1994.
Hess, Joan. A really cute corpse. New York, Ballantine, 1988.
Hess, Joan. Roll over and play dead. New York, Ballantine, 1991.
Hess, Joan. Strangled prose. New York, Ballantine, 1986. [Romance novels and murder.]
Hess, Joan. Tickled to death. New York, Dutton, 1994.
[Hess's principal character is a bookseller.]
Hill, Donna. Murder uptown. New York, Carroll & Graff, 1992. [More academic than biblio, a professor's search for her missing dictionary turns up the weapon which murdered her colleague. Some scenes set in library.]
Hill, John Spencer. The last castrato. New York, Worldwide, 1997. [Bizarre murders in Florence; including character who works in a library.]
Hill, Marion Moore. Bookmarked for murder.
Hill, Marion Moore. Death books a return.
[The protagonist in Hill's recent series is "wry-witted librarian" Juanita Wills.]
Hill, Reginald. Dialogues of the dead. London, Harper Collins, 2001. [Library and librarian figure in bizarre series of murders.]
Hinkle, Vernon. Music to murder by. New York, Dell, 1978. [Librarian sleuth modeled on Harvard University music librarian Larry Mowers.]
Hitchcock, Jane Stanton. The witches' hammer. London, Penguin, 1994. [Rare book collector is brutally murdered and a 15th century grimoire is missing from his library.]
Hjortsberg, William. Nevermore. St. Martins, 1994. [ Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle investigate a series of chilling murders that imitate those found in Edgar Allen Poe's most disturbing stories.]
Hodgkin, M. R. Student body. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1949. [Murder in a college library, staff is suspect.]
Holding, James. "More than a mere storybook". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 61 (February 1973): 44-55.
Holding, James. "Still a cop". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 66 (December 1975): 80-92.
[Character Hal Johnson is a library security officer, hunting down overdue and stolen books.]
Holt, Hazel. The cruelest month. New York, Onyx, 1992. [Murder of a librarian at the Bodleian.]
Holt, Hazel. Death among friends [large print ed.]. Thorndike, ME, Thorndike Press, 1999. (UK: Dead and buried).
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory and the only good lawyer. New York, Signet, 1998. (UK: The only good lawyer).
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory: Death of a dean. New York, Dutton, 1996. (UK: Death of a dean).
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory: Detective in residence. New York, Dutton, 1994. (UK: Murder on campus).
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory investigates. New York, Onyx, 1991. (UK: Gone away).
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory's shortest journey. New York, Signet, 1995. (UK: The shortest journey) [Involves library research.]
Holt, Hazel. Mrs. Malory wonders why [large print ed.]. Thorndike, ME, Thorndike Press, 1995. (UK: Superfluous death).
[Though not a library/librarian series, at some point in the narrative, Mrs. Mallory always winds up in a library.]
Holtzer, Susan. Black diamond. New York, St. Martin's, 1998. [Historical society archives may help solve this murder.]
Hopkins, Kenneth. Body blow. New York, Harper & Row, 1985. [Man expecting delivery of private library receives body instead.]
Howe, Katherine. The physick book of Deliverance Dane. New York, Hyperion, 2009. [Old manuscripts, unhelpful archivists, the Boston Athenaeum, Widener Library, this book has it all.]
Hyland, Stanley. Green grow the tresses-o. London, Gollancz, 1965.
Hyland, Stanley. Top bloody secret. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973. [Hyland's books involve the House of Commons library.]
[Hyland's books involve the House of Commons library.]

I

Innes, Michael. The Ampersand papers. New York, Dodd, 1979. [Murder of an archivist.]
Innes, Michael. Appleby and Honeybath. New York, Dodd, 1983. [Murder and clues in a library.]
Innes, Michael. Death at the president's lodging. New York, Penguin, 1988. [Key scenes in St. Anthony's College library.]
Innes, Michael. Hamlet, revenge! Harmondsworth, England, Penguin, 1961. [Missing rare book.]
Innes, Michael. The long farewell. New York, Harper, 1991. [Murder in the library, and an ecclesiastical librarian suspect.]
Innes, Michael. The paper thunderbolt. New York, Penguin, 1987. (UK: Operation Pax). [Denouement involves a chase through the Bodleian.]
Innes, Michael. Secret vanguard. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1941. [Murder traced though bookshops and British Museum.]
Innes, Michael. Silence observed. New York, Penguin, 1964. [Murdered bookdealer.]
Innes, Michael. The weight of the evidence. New York, Harper & Row, 1983. [Librarian is a minor character, but a fine caricature.]

J

James, P.D. Death in holy orders. New York, Ballantine, 2001. [There is Egyptian papyrus involved.]
James, P. D. A taste for death. New York, Warner, 1987.
James, P. D. Unnatural causes. New York, Popular Library, 1967. [A famous writer is murdered.]
James, P. D. An unsuitable job for a woman. New York, Fawcett Popular Library, 1972.
Jennings, Maureen. Except the dying. New York, HarperPaperbacks, 1997.
[Detective William Murdoch solves murder cases involving books.]
Johnson, W. Bolingbroke. The widening stain. New York, Knopf, 1942. [Murder at Cornell University library.]
Jordan, Cathleen. A carol in the dark. New York, Dell, 1984. [It takes an erudite reading of the medieval Song of Roland to unravel the mystery bedeviling the campus of Crossroads University.]
Judd, Margaret. Murder is a best seller. New York, Arcadia House, 1959. [Murder at a party given for librarian author.]

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Kaewert, Julie. Unbound. New York, Bantam, 1997.
Kaewert, Julie. Uncatalogued. New York, Bantam, 2002.
Kaewert, Julie. Unprintable. New York, Bantam, 1998.
Kaewert, Julie. Unsigned. New York, Bantam, 2001.
Kaewert, Julie. Unsolicited. New York, Bantam, 2000.
Kaewert, Julie. Untitled. New York, Bantam, 1999.
[Kaewert's principle character is a publisher/printer, and the mysteries all center around publishing.]
Kallen, Lucille. Introducing C. B. Greenfield. New York, Ballantine, 1979. [The investigations of possible suspects, including a publishing house editor of erotica, is a delight.]
Kaminsky, Stuart M. He done her wrong. New York, Mysterious Press, 1983. [Toby Peters comes to the aid of Mae West when she discovers that her only copy of her 'sizzling' autobiography is missing.]
Katz, Jon. Death by station wagon. New York, Bantam, 1994. [Has librarian as minor character.]
Kaufelt, David A. The winter women murders. New York, Pocket Books, 1994. [Bibliomystery set at the Waggs Neck Harbor Annual Literary Symposium.]
Kellerman, Faye. The quality of mercy. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1989. [Young Jewish woman encounters William Shakespeare; he seeks a murderer while she helps to rescue Jews from the Spanish Inquisition. Bibliomysteriousness unverified]
Kelly, Mary. Dead man's riddle. New York, Walker, 1957. [Murder in library of University of Edinburgh.]
Kelly, Mary. March to the gallows. New York, Holt, 1964. [Librarian involved in theft and murder.]
Kelly, Nora. In the shadow of King's. New York, St. Martin's, 1984. [Marginal, but includes a lovely description of a personal library.]
Kenney, Susan. Graves in academe. New York, Penguin, 1986. [Real-life events parallel violent acts in literature.]
Ketchum Philip. Death in the library. New York, Crowell, 1937. [Libraries are marginally involved]
Kiefer, Warren. The Pontius Pilate papers. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. [Modern murder solved with the aid of a 2000-year-old Roman papyri dealing with the persecution of Jews by Romans.]
Killian, Diana. High rhymes and misdemeanors. New York, Pocket, 2003.
[Killian's Poetic death series features a literary scholar whose boyfriend runs an antique shop/bookstore, and one of the revolving characters is a biker librarian.]
Kilmer, Nicholas. Harmony in flesh and black. New York, Harper, 1995.
[The hero of this series, an art expert, is ably assisted by his Cambridge research librarian and lover.]
King, Laurie R. A letter of Mary. New York, Bantam, 1998. [Nouveau Sherlock Holmes tale involves a roll of papyrus with a message from Mary Magdalene and a "fiendishly clever" murderer.]
King, Peter. "The body in the bay". In Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle (Eds.), And the dying is easy, New York, Signet, 2001 (pp. 156-179). [In the course of solving a mystery the protagonist stops at the Oakland Public Library to find an important piece of information.]
King, Richard. That sleep of death. Toronto, Dundurn Group, 2002. [Why is the murdered McGill professor clutching a book order slip from our hero's bookstore?]
King, Ross. Ex-libris. London, Chatto & Windus, 1998. [Concerning a lost alchemical text purloined from a private library by Cromwell's troops.]
King, Stephen. Misery. New York, Signet, 1988. [Author of romance novels is held captive and forced to write another novel resurrecting a character.]
Kirwin, Mary Lou. Killer librarian. New York, Pocket Books, 2012. [First in a series featuring killer Mid-west librarian and anglophile Karen Nash.]
Kittredge, Mary. Murder in Mendocino. New York, Worldwide, 1990.
Kittredge, Mary. Poison pen. New York, Worldwide, 1992.
[Series stars freelance writer Charlotte Kent.]
Klass, David. Night of the tiger. New York, St. Martin's, 1990. ["GIRL KILLED IN LIBRARY the headline reads."]
Knight, Kathryn Lasky. Mumbo jumbo. New York, Pocket Books, 1991.
Knight, Kathryn Lasky. Trace elements. New York, Pocket Books, 1986.
[Children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs solves mysteries.]
Knowler, John. The trap. New York, Knopf, 1965. [Rare book world.]
Kostova, Elizabeth. The historian. New York, Little, Brown, 2005. [An ancient book and some letters spur a dangerous investigation of the Dracula legend.]
Kotzwinkle, William. The bear went over the mountain. New York, Henry Holt, 1996. [A bear who finds a manuscript while foraging for food. Donning a suit and tie, he seeks his fortune in the New York literary world.]
Kurzweil, Allen. The grand complication. New York, Hyperion, 2001 [advance reading copy]. [Reference librarian "of arcane interests" narrates the story of his mysterious dealings with an unusual bibliophile.]

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Lake, M.D. Gift for murder. New York, Avon, 1992. [Murder of nasty bestselling author is a relief to some members of the university's Tower Writer's Collective; they're all hiding something.]
Lake, M. D. Once upon a crime. New York, Avon, 1995. [Danish scholar murdered in library.]
Langton, Jane. Dark Nantucket noon. New York, Penguin, 1975. [Includes scenes at whaling museum library.]
Langton, Jane. The Escher twist. New York, Penguin, 2002. [Former librarian is protagonist.]
Langton, Jane. The face on the wall. New York, Penguin, 1999. [Illustrator of children's books begins to paint a mural of fairytales on a wall in her house, but a mysterious face keeps appearing on the wall.]
Langton, Jane. Emily Dickinson is dead. New York, Penguin, 1985. [Librarian involved in murder.]
Langton, Jane. God in Concord. New York, Penguin, 1993. [Mentions Boston PL and Concord PL.]
Langton, Jane. Murder at Monticello. New York, Penguin, 2001. [Includes fond reminiscences of departed librarians.]
Langton, Jane. Murder at the Gardner. New York, Penguin, 1998.
Langton, Jane. The transcendental murder (PBK: The minuteman murder). New York, Penguin, 1989. [Murder in Concord Public Library.]
Larkin, Philip. A girl in winter. London, Faber, 1964. [Beatley PR6023.A66 G5.] [The second of the famed poet's two novels and a bibliomystery.]
Larson, Nathan. The Dewey decimal system. New York, Akashic, 2011. [Signed by the author. The protagonist lives in the NYPL after the city and Wall Street have collapased following terrorist attacks.]
Le Carre, John. The Russia House. New York, Bantam, 1990. [Bookselling used as a cover.]
Le Carre, John. The spy who came in from the cold. New York, Bantam, 1975. [One of the first jobs he gets after "resigning" the service is as Assistant Librarian at a psychic research library.]
Leather, Edwin (Sir). The Vienna elephant. New York, Pinnacle, 1981. [The protagonist consults a researcher into old manuscripts, and various reference books are employed throughout.]
Lemarchand, Elizabeth. Step in the dark. New York, Walker, 1983. [Murder in the Ramsden Athenaeum Library.]
Lewis, Roy. The devil is dead. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Lewis, Roy. Most cunning workmen. New York, St. Martin's, 1985. [Vacationing cataloguer solves murder mystery.]
Lewis, Roy. Suddenly as a shadow. London, Allison & Busby, 1999.
[Series character is Arnold Landon - archaeologist, architectural scholar, cataloguer, and writer.]
Lewis, Roy Harley. A cracking of spines. New York, St. Martin's, 1981. [Book theft from libraries.]
Lewis, Roy Harley. Death in Verona. New York, St. Martin's, 1989.
Lewis, Roy Harley. Miracles take a little longer. Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black, 1986. (Bound with two other novels for Detective Book Club)
Lewis, Roy Harley. Where agents fear to tread. New York, St. Martin's, 1984. [Hero Henry Franklin is a librarian.]
Littell, Robert. The amateur. London, Faber & Faber, 1991. [CIA specialist uses the agency's massive computing power to search all of Shakespeare's works to find the elusive cryptogram revealing their true author.]
Lochte, Dick. The neon smile. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995. [Includes the immortal line "How do you think I wound up taking a crip course like Library Science?" (p. 280).]
Lockridge, Frances & Richard. Dead as a dinasour. New York, Harper, 1994.
Lockridge, Richard. The distant clue. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1963. [Murder of Van Brunt Library (Putnam NY) librarian.]
Lockridge, Frances & Richard. Murder is served. New York, Harper, 1994.
Lockridge, Frances & Richard. Murder is suggested. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, 1959.
Lockridge, Richard & Frances. Murder within murder. New York, Pocket Books, 1984. [Unnatural death in the reading room of New York Public Library.]
Lockridge, Frances & Richard.Voyage into violence. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott, 1956.
[Protagonists Pam and Jerry North are publishers.]
Lodge, David. The British Museum is falling down. London, Secker, 1981. [Beatley PR6023.O322 B7 1981.]
Lodge, David. Small world. London, Secker & Warburg, 1984. [Beatley PR6062.O36 S64 1985.]
Lorens, M.K. Sorrowheart. New York, Bantam, 1994.
[Protagonist is mystery writer/professor]
Lovesey, Peter. The vault. London, Warner, 2000. [Why does an early edition of Milton lead to murder?]
Lowry, Malcolm. "The element follows you around, sir!". In A. D. Maclean, Ed., Winter's tales II (pp. 83-119). New York, St Martin's press, 1965. [A psychological horror story, part of which derives from activity in a library.]
Ludlum, Robert. The Chancelor manuscript. New York, Bantam, 1978. [Research for a novel is dangerous for an author's health.]

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MacDonald, John D. "The reference room". In Susan Toth & John Coughlan (Eds.), Reading rooms. New York, Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 326-331. [Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991.]
MacDonald, Marianne. Blood lies. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
MacDonald, Marianne. Death's autograph. New York, Harper, 1999.
MacDonald, Marianne. Die once. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
MacDonald, Marianne. Ghost walk. New York, Harper, 2000.
[Series features antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare, and all revolve around things bibliophilic.]
MacLeod, Charlotte. The corpse in Oozak's Pond. New York, Mysterious Press, 1987.
MacLeod, Charlotte. Exit the milkman. New York, Mysterious Press, 1996.
MacLeod, Charlotte. The luck runs out. New York, Avon, 1981.
MacLeod, Charlotte. An owl too many. New York, Mysterious Press, 1991.
MacLeod, Charlotte. Rest you merry. New York Avon Books, 1978. [The Buggins Collection reveals a mystery.]
MacLeod, Charlotte. Something in the water. New York, Mysterious Press, 1994.
MacLeod, Charlotte. Something the cat dragged in. New York, Avon, 1983.
MacLeod, Charlotte. Vane pursuit. New York, Mysterious Press, 1989.
MacLeod, Charlotte. Wrack & rune. New York, Avon, 1983.
[One of the leading characters in the Peter Shandy series has a doctorate in library science from Simmons (see Rest you merry, p. 100).]
Magoon, Carey. I smell the devil. London, Cassell, 1949. [Rare book librarian is murdered.]
Maitland, Barry. Dark mirror. New York, Minotaur Books, 2009. [Murder in the London Library.]
Manasek, F.J. (Ed.). Under cover, death stalks the book dealer. Norwich, Museum Street Press, 1997. [Twelve stories of murder and mayhem that involves the rare book and map world.]
Manson, Cynthia, (Ed.). Murder by the book. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1995. [Collection of bibliomystery short stories.]
Marshall, Evan. Missing Marlene. Kensington, 2000. [Literary agent.]
Marshall, William. Sci fi. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. [Murder at a Hong Kong SF writer's convention.]
Marston, Edward. "Slaughter in the Strand. In His Murder, ancient and modern (pp. 176-185). Norfolk, VA, Crippen & Landru, 2005. [Librarian runs afoul of publisher.]
Martin, Ann. M. Mary Anne and the library mystery. New York, Scholastic, 1994.
Martini, Steve. The list. New York, Jove, 1997. [Gable Cooper has penned a novel to kill for, but there is a problem: Gable Cooper doesn't exist.]
Mason, Cynthia & Scarborough, Constance (Eds.). Senior sleuths. New York, Berkeley, 1996. [Short bibliomystery stories by Arthur, Davis, and Estleman]
Massey, Sujata. The floating girl. New York, Avon, 2001. [Rei Shimura stumbles upon an exquisitely drawn modern comic book that reveals the disturbing social milieu of pre-WW II Japan.]
Mathis, Edward. From a high place. New York, Scribner's, 1985. [P. I. investigates suicide of librarian.]
Matteson, Stephanie. Murder on the silk road. New York, Diamond, 1992. [Mystery surrounds Buddhist monastery library.]
McAleer, John J. Coign of vantage, or, The Boston Athenaeum murders. Woodstock, Countryman Press, 1987. [Missing papers turn up at the Athenaeum.]
McBain, Ed. Lady, lady, I did it! New York, Signet, 1961. [Mayhem starts in a bookstore.]
McCaffrey, Vincent. Hound. Easthampton, MA, Small Beer Press, 2009. [Involves bookstores and the Boston Public Library.]
McCarry, Charles. The secret lovers. New York, Signet, 1977. [Set in 1960 at the peak of the cold war, a vital ms. is smuggled out of Moscow.]
McClure, James. The artful egg. New York, Pantheon Books, 1984. [Black and white South African police duo investigate the murder of a world-famous novelist.]
McDermid, Val. Killing the shadows. London, HarperCollins, 2005. [Murder of a crime novelist.]
McGerr, Patricia. "The day of the bookmobile". In Susan Toth & John Coughlan (Eds.), Reading rooms. New York, Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 306-315. [Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991.]. Also in Kahn, Joan (Ed.), Handle with care. Greenwillow, 1985.
McGinley, Patrick. Bogmail. New York, Penguin, 1982. (New Haven, Ticknor & Fields, 1981) [A bawdy and atmospheric tale set in Donegal, in which the victim is brained by a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica.]
McInerny, Ralph. Frigor mortis. New York, Worldwide, 1991. [Bibliophile solves book theft and murder mystery.]
McInerney, Ralph. Irish tenure. New York, St. Martin's, 2000. [Murder in the Notre Dame archives.]
McInerny, Ralph. Savings and loam. New York, Worldwide, 1992. [Cast of characters includes a librarian.]
McInerney, Ralph. Second vespers. New York, Vanguard, 1980. [Victim is a book illustrator.]
Meier, Leslie. Trick or treat murder. New York, Kensington, 1996.
Meier, Leslie. Valentine murder. New York, Kensington, 2000.
[Protagonist Lucy Stone is involved with libraries.]
Meltzer, Brad. The book of fate. New York, Warner Books, 2006. [Involves a crossword puzzle, a code by Jefferson, and Masonic history.]
Meredith, D.R. By hook or by book. New York, Berkley, 2000.
Meredith, D.R. The home front murders. New York, Ballantine, 1994. [Town librarian is caught defacing books.]
Meredith, D.R. Murder in volume. New York, Berkley, 2000. [Murder centers on bookstore.]
Meredith, D. R. Murder by reference. New York, Ballantine, 1991. [Murder in museum library plays small part.]
Meredith, D.R. Murder past due. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2001. [Librarian Megan Clark and the Murder by the Yard reading group tour famous murder sites and reopen an infamous case of family murder.]
[The heroine in one of Meredith's series (from 2000 onwards) is a librarian.]
Mertz, Barbara see Peters, Elizabeth
Meyer, Lynn. Paperback thriller. Freedom, CA, Crossing Press, 1975. [Psychiatrist is shocked to find book that discusses intimate details of her files. Investigation leads into world of publishing.]
Michaels, Barbara see Peters, Elizabeth
Milligan, Peter, & Jim Aparo. The library of souls. New York, DC Comics, 1992. [Batman solicits the help of librarian Jenny Holding to solve Dewey deaths.] Note: This item is kept in Candy Schwartz' office; please feel free to inquire.
Minahan, John. The great Harvard robbery. New York, Norton, 1988. [Gutenberg Bible is stolen from Widener Library.]
Mojtabai, A. G. Mundome. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1974. [About archivist in "a large moldering library".]
Monahan, Brent. The book of common dread. New York, St. Martin's, 1993. [Vampire novel, but includes chase through library stacks.]
Monahan, Brent. Blood of the covenant. New York, St. Martin's, 1995. [Vampire loose among stacks of Firestone Library.]
[Series characters are Princeton librarians.]
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Blackwater spirits. New York, Berkeley, 1996.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Must the maiden die. New York, Berkeley, 1999.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. North star conspiracy. New York, Berkeley, 1995.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Seneca Falls inheritance. New York, Berkley, 1994.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. The stalking horse. New York, Berkley, 1998.
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Through a gold eagle. New York, Berkley, 1996.
[Series features 1840s feminist librarian sleuth.]
Monteilhet, Hubert. Murder at the Frankfurt Book Fair London, MacDonald & Janes, 1975. (UK: Dead copy) [Characters include a young librarian.]
Montgomery, Yvonne. Scavengers. New York, Avon, 1987. [Centers around a hitherto-unknown Mark Twain manuscript, The Death of Huckleberry Finn.]
Morgan, Kate. The days of crime and roses. New York, Berkley, 1992.
Morgan, Kate. Home sweet homicide. New York, Berkley, 1991.
Morgan, Kate. Murder most fowl. New York, Berkley, 1991.
Morgan, Kate. Mystery loves company. New York, Berkley, 1992.
Morgan, Kate. The old school dies. New York, Berkley, 1996.
Morgan, Kate. A slay at the races. New York, Berkley Books, 1990.
Morgan, Kate. Wanted, dude or alive. New York, Berkley, 1994.
[Morgan's sleuth, Dewey James, is a small town librarian.]
[Morgan's sleuth, Dewey James, is a small town librarian.]
Morice, Anne. Planning for murder. New York, St. Martins, 1990. [Murder in library of Upfield Court.]
Morley, Christopher. The haunted bookshop. New York, Avon, 1968. [One of the first of its kind, c1919.]
Morrell, David. "Blue murder". Pages, 11, 1/2 (January/February 2003): 70-72. [What will an author do for publicity?]
Morton, Kate. The forgotten garden. New York, Washington Square Press, 2008. [A foundling arrives in Australia with nothing but a book of fairy tales - her past is pursued through three generations.]
Mosley, Walter. Fearless Jones. New York, Warner, 2001. [Paris Minton is minding his small used bookstore when Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions. Within the next twenty-four hours, Paris has been beaten up, made love to, shot at, and robbed, and his bookstore has been burned to the ground.]
Moynahan, Julian. Pairing off. New York, William Morrow, 1969. [A philandering librarian at the Boston Free Library.] [Beatley PS3563.O96 P3.]
Muller, Marcia. Leave a message for Willie. New York, Mysterious Press, 1990. [McCone is faced with solving the murder of one Jerry Levin who claims to work for a group which is dedicated to the recovery of stolen sacred Hebrew Torah scrolls.]
Muller, Marcia & Bill Pronzini (Eds.). Chapter & hearse; suspense stories about the world of books. New York, William Morrow, 1985.
Murphy, Haughton. Murder keeps a secret. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1990. (London, Collins, The Crime Club, 1989) [Retired Wall Street lawyer investigates the defenestration of his godson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who was engaged in the writing of the biography of a recently deceased Senator and Supreme Court Justice.]
Murphy, Shirley Rousseau. Cat on the edge. New York, Harper/Prism, 1996.
[One of Murphy's principal characters is a library cat, when she is not being a sleuth. One of the human characters also works in the library.]
Murray, Yxta Maya. The conquest. New York, Harper, 2002. [Rare book restorer finds a mystery in a 16th century book.]
Musil, Robert. The man without qualities. London, Secker, 1961. [Beatley PT2625.U8 M31 v.1 & v.2.]

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Napier, Bill. Splintered icon. New York, St. Martin's, 2005. [Bookseller appraises mysterious journal hiding thousand-year-old secrets.]
Neel, Janet. Death among the dons. New York, Pocket Books, 1995. [Academic mystery with library scenes.]
Neri, Kris. Revenge of the gypsy queen. Highland City, FL, Rainbow Books, 1999. [Mystery writer and amateur detective solves a family mystery.]
Newman, Sharan. Death comes as epiphany. New York: Forge, 1993. [Young scholar from convent traces forged manuscript - cathedral library play small part in plot.]
Norton, Andre & Grace Allen Hogarth. Sneeze on Sunday. New York, Tor, 1992. [Librarian investigates murder.]

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O'Marie, Sister Carol Anne. Murder in ordinary time. New York, Dell, 1991. [Library plays small part.]
Ocork, Shannon. The murder of Muriel Lake. New York, Worldwide, 1990. [Murder in a library at a mystery writers' convention.]

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Page, Katherine Hall. The body in the belfry. New York, Avon, 1990.
Page, Katherine Hall. The body in the bookcase. Morrow, 1998. [The town librarian is found dead in her home, tied to a chair.]
Page, Katherine Hall. The body in the vestibule. New York, Avon, 1992. [Chef/author Faith Fairchild is in France developing the manuscript for a new cookbook when murder intervenes.]
Page, Marco. Fast company. New York, Pocket Books, 1943. [Rare book thieves.]
Palliser, Charles. The unburied. New York, Washington Square Press, 1999. [Three tales of murder in a mystery involving an academic pursuing an 11th century manuscript.]
Papazoglou, Orania. Death's savage passion. Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black, 1986. (Bound with two other novels for Detective Book Club)
Papazoglou, Oriana. Sweet, savage death. New York, Penguin, 1985.
Papazoglou, Oriana. Wicked loving murder. New York, Penguin, 1986.
[Series stars romance writer Patience Campbell McKenna, and literary people and/or gatherings.]
Paretsky, Sara. Guardian angel. New York, Dell, 1992. [Apparently involves a NEXIS search.]
Parker, Robert B. A Catskill eagle. New York, Dell, 1965. [Features librarian as central character.]
Parker, Robert B. Stardust. New York, Berkley, 1991. [Spenser uses BPL for research.]
Parker, Robert B. The Godwulf manuscript. New York, Dell, 1973. [Spenser is hired to recover a stolen manuscript belonging to a university library.]
Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club. New York, Ballantine, 2006. [Murders inspired by Dante's Inferno
Pears, Iain. Death and restoration. New York, Berkley, 2000. [Monastery archivist and archive play a role.]
Pears, Iain. An instance of the fingerpost. New York, Berkley, 1999. [Set in England in the 1660's. A fellow of Oxford's New College is found dead - a young woman is accused of his murder. Four witnesses include a famous Oxford antiquarian and a cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II. Bibliomysteriousness unverified.]
Pedneau, Dave. A. K. A. (Also known as). New York, Ballantine, 1990. [Assistant librarian bludgeoned to death.]
Peele, David. "The cataloging on the wall". Wilson Library Bulletin, 45 (April 1971): 772-774. [Spoof.]
Penny, Louise. Bury your dead. New York, Minotaur, 2010. [How is murder associated with the library of Québec's peaceful Literary and Historical Society?]
Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Club Dumas. New York, Vintage Books, 1998. (UK: The Dumas Club) [Plot involves a manuscript section of Alexandre Dumas' The three musketeers.]
Peters, Elizabeth. Die for love. New York, TOR, 1987.
Peters, Elizabeth. The murders of Richard III. New York, Dodd, 1974.
Peters, Elizabeth. Naked once more. New York, Warner, 1989.
Peters, Elizabeth. The seventh sinner. New York, Mysterious Press, 1972.
[The lead character in the above series is a librarian (later turned author).]
Peters, Elizabeth. The ape who guards the balance. New York, Avon Twilight, 1999. [A mint-condition papyrus of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead plays a pivotal scroll in this archaeological mystery.]
Peters, Elizabeth. Devil-may-care. New York, TOR, 1977.
Peterson, Bernard. The Caravaggio books. New York, Worldwide, 1997. [Who stabbed the professor in the university library?]
Phillips, Stella. The hidden wrath. New York, Walker, 1984. [Braseley Adult College's librarian is murdered.]
Piggin, Julia Remine. Mini-mysteries. New York, Scholastic, 1973. [Contains about 60 very short mysteries, the solution to which is printed upside down at the end of each Quite a few have to do with libraries or manuscripts.]
Pittman, Joseph, & Riffle, Annette (Eds.). And the dying is easy. New York, Signet, 2001. [Contains bibliomystery short stories by Denise Swanson, Peter King, Judith Van Gieson.]
Poe, Robert. The black cat. New York, TOR, 1998. [Guided by a secret cache of papers left to him by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist seeks to discover what is behind the outbreak of evil in his town.]

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Potter, Jeremy. The dance of death. London, Constable, 1968. [Someone is stealing prints from the world's great libraries.]
Prather, Richard S. The Cheim manuscript. New York, Tor, 1969. [The little man with the manuscript disappears]
Preston, Douglas. The codex. New York, Tor, 2005. [An ancient Mayan codex holds a secret.]
Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child. The book of the dead. New York, Warner, 2006. [Archival research is involved in this adventure mystery. Marginally bibnliomystery.]
Price, Anthony. Our man in Camelot. New York, Mysterious Press, 1975. [Links between a stolen Air Force jet and Russian libraries.]
Prior, Lily. La cucina. New York, Harper Collins, 2000. [Librarian's second love disapears - family mysteries are discovered.]
Purtill, Richard. Murdercon. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1982. [A legendary writer, his lost manuscript and murder at a science fiction convention add up to great fun.]

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Queen, Ellery. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 415 (June 1978). [For stories by Harvey and Schweik.]
Queen, Ellery. "The mystery at the Library of Congress". In Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini (Eds.), Chapter & hearse: Suspense stories about the world of books. New York, William Morrow, 1985, pp. 321-331. Also in Davis, Dorothy Salisbury (Ed.), Crime without murder. New York, Scribner's, 1970. pp. 223-231. [LC is used by a dope ring.]

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R.O.D.: read or die [DVD]. Manga International, 2003. [A sinister plot is afoot and only Ms. Yomiko Readman, "Agent Paper" in Section A of Library Special Ops, can stop it. An anime series.]
Randisi, Robert J. The Steinway collection. New York, Avon, 1983. [Death in a private library.]
Rankin, Ian. The falls. London, Orion, 2001. [Library research, a museum curator, and press clippings help Rebus solve the mystery.]
Rankin, Ian. Knots and crosses. New York, St. Martin's, 1987. [Librarian and library involved in Edinburgh police mystery.].
Raphael, Lev. The Edith Wharton murders. New York, St. Martin's, 1997. [Murder of a literary critic. A blend of scholarly intrigue and satire with amateur sleuth and English professor Nick Hoffman.]
Reeves, Robert. Peeping Thomas. New York, Ivy, 1990. [Briefly features Boston Public Library and a Boston publishing house.]
Rendell, Ruth. Shake hands for ever. London, Hutchinson, 1975.
Reno, Marie R. Final proof. New York, Popular Library, 1977. [Death in the publishing world.]
Richardson, Robert. The book of the dead. New York, St. Martin's, 1989. [Who stole the unpublished Sherlock Holmes manuscript?]
Richardson, Robert. The Latimer mercy. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1985. [A rare, misprinted edition of a sixteenth century Bible is stolen from Vercaster Cathedral.]
Roberts, James Hall. The Q document. New York, William Morrow, 1964. [The document in question comes from a collection of 1st century manuscripts.]
Roberts, Gillian. Adam and evil. New York, Ballantine, 1999. [Not only does the murder happen in a library, but librarians are deeply involved.]
Roberts, Gillian. Helen hath no fury. New York, Fawcett, 2000. [Highlights murder in a book-discussion group.]
Roberts, Gillian. I'd rather be in Philadelphia. New York, Ballantine, 1992. [Clues in a 2d hand book.]
Roberts, Gillian. The bluest blood. New York, Ballantine, 1998. [Involves Philadelphia high society and a prep school library.]
Robinson, Peter. A dedicated man. New Yor, Avon, 1988. [A kindly scholar and author of books is murdered.]
Robinson, Robert. Landscape with dead dons. London, Gollancz, 1983. [Murder and missing books at the Bodleian.]
Roe, C. F. A fiery hint of murder. New York, Signet, 1993. (UK: Bad blood). [Could the murderer be the vengeful librarian, ex-wife of the victim?]
Rowe, Jennifer. Murder by the book. New York, Bantam, 1992. [Who is killing a publishing house's top authors?]
Rowlands, Betty. Exhaustive enquiries. New York, Berkley, 1995. [Librarian plays a minor role.]
Rowlands, Betty. Finishing touch. New York, Jove, 1993. (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1991). [Craig teaches writing at college in the Cotswolds but she's distracted by murder.]
Rowlands, Betty. A little gentle sleuthing. New York, Walker, 1992.
Rowlands, Betty. Malice poetic. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995).
[Series features mystery writer Melissa Craig.]

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St. George, Margaret. Murder by the book. Toronto, Harlequin, 1992. [Author, publisher and others locked in mansion with killer.]
Sale, Medora. Shortcut to Santa Fe. New York, Scribner's, 1994. [One of the characters on a highjacked bus is a librarian, or is she?]
Sansom, Ian. The book stops here: A mobile library mystery. New York, Harper, 2008.

Sansom, Ian. The case of the missing books: A mobile library mystery. New York, HarperCollins, 2006.
Sansom, Ian. Mr. Dixon disappears: A mobile library mystery. New York, HarperCollins, 2007.
[Down-on-his-luck London librarian accepts post in backwater town in Ireland, only to find that the job isn't at all what he had pictured.]
Savage, Tom. Scavenger. New York, Signet, 2000. [Author's novel involves him in murder.]
Sawyer, Corrine H. The J. Alfed Prufrock murders. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1988. [Murder of a librarian.]
Sayers, Dorothy L. Gaudy night. New York, Harper & Row, 1936. [When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks in which a thesis proves to be they key to the happenings.]
Sayers, Dorothy L. "The undignified melodrama of the bone of contention". In Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter. New York, Avon, 1972.
Saylor, Steven. Arms of nemesis. New York, Ivy, 1992. [Murder in a library in ancient Rome.]
Schweik, Robert C. "Imagine a murder". Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 415 (June 1978): 32-43. [Protagonist works in a bookstore.]
Seeley, Mabel. The crying sisters. New York, Pyramid, 1963. [Librarian finds murder while on vacation.]
Setterfield, Diane. The thirteenth tale. New York, Washington Square Press, 2006. [Involves young biographer and reclusive author.]
Shaber, Sarah R. Simon said. New York, St. Martin's, 1998. [Library and archival research provides clues.]
Sharp, David. I, the criminal. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1933. [Theft from the British Museum Library.]
Sherman, Beth. Dead man's float. New York, Avon, 1998. [Protagonist does research in library.]
Sherwood, John. The mantrap garden. London, Gollancz, 1986.
Shields, Carol. Swann. New York, Penguin, 1990. ["Virginal small-town librarian" involved in murder.]
Short, Sharon Gwyn. Past pretense. New York, Fawcett, 1994. [Detective uses databases.]
Simenon, Georges. Maigret and the Calame report. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1969.
Simmons, Charles. The belles lettres papers. New York, William Morrow, 1987. [What's going wrong at the home of the most powerful literary magazine in North America?]
Simonson, Sheila. Larkspur. New York, Worldwide, 1991.
Simonson, Sheila. Meadowlark. New York, Worldwide, 1997.
[The protagonist owns a bookstore.]
Simpson, Marcia. Crow in stolen colors. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2000. [Protagonist is librarian.]
Sims, George. The end of the web. New York, Walker, 1976. [A dangerous conspiracy hatched by three very unwise antiques dealers.]
Sims, George. The last best friend. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1988.
Sims, George. The sand dollar. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.
Sims, George. Sleep no more. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1966.
Sims, George. The terrible door. New York, Pocket, 1966.
[Sims' books focus on rare book dealers.]
Sipherd, Ray. The Audubon quartet. New York, St. Martin's, 1998. [Wealthy collector B. Ravener buys four original Audubons, whereupon critic A. Lasher exposes same as obvious fakes and is murdered shortly thereafter.]
Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö. Roseanna. Translated by Lois Roth. New York, Vintage Books, 1967. [Victim is a librarian.]
Skom, Edith. The George Eliot murders. New York, Dell, 1995. [Not very bibliomystery, but opens in a library, and the murders relate to Middlemarch.]
Skom, Edith. The Mark Twain murders. New York, Dell, 1989. [Murder and mutilated and missing books at an academic library. NOTIS system's LUIS mentioned.]
Small, J.M. "Nothing ventured." Ellery Queen, January 1986, 65-71. [Protagonist is librarian turned PI.]
Smiley, Jane. Duplicate keys. London, Sphere, 1986. [Librarian finds her friends shot to death]
Smith, Barbara Burnett. Dust devils of the Purple Sage. Toronto, Worldwide, 1997. [Protagonist finds herself accused of a murder based on the one she had plotted in her unpublished novel.]
Smith, Barbara Burnett. Writers of the Purple Sage. Toronto, Worldwide, 1996. [The murder is an exact copy of the one the protagonist had outlined in her novel-in-progress.]
[Purple Sage series protagonist is a novelist, so these are bibliomystery candidates.]
Smith, Charles Merrill. Reverend Randollph and the unholy Bible. New York, Avon, 1984. [Randollph and a university library investigate the appearance of a previously unknown Gutenberg Bible.]
Smith, Joan. Don't leave me this way. New York, Ballantine, 1990.
Smith, Joan. A masculine ending. New York, Scribners, 1987.
[Series set in academia and and featuring writer Loretta Lawson, scholar and feminist.]
Smith, Julie. Huckleberry fiend. New York, The Mysterious Press, 1987. [A burglar finds the missing part of a Huckleberry Finn manuscript.]
Smith, Julie. New Orleans beat. New York, Ivy Books, 1995. [The victim frequented an online community; the detective follows the electronic clues]
Somoza, José Carlos. The Athenian murders. London, Abacus, 2003, [An ancient Greek manuscript holds the key to a modern murder.]
Spring, Michelle. Every breath you take. New York, Pocket Books, 1994.
Spring, Michelle. Nights in white satin. New York, Ballantine, 1999.
Spring, Michelle. Running for shelter. New York, Pocket Books, 1996.
Spring, Michelle. Standing in the shadows. New York, Fawcett, 1998.
[Series featuring librarian-sidekick Helen Cochrane and private detective Laura Principal.]
Stacey, Susannah. Bone idle. New York, Pocket Books, 1993. [A librarian figures among the cast of characters at an estate murder]
Stade, George. Confessions of a lady killer. New York, Norton, 1979. [Killer's victims include authors and publishers.]
Stallwood, Veronica. Death and the Oxford box. New York, Scribners, 1994.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford double. London, Headline, 2001.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford blue. London, Headline, 1998.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford exit. New York, Scribner, 1995. [Protagonist poses as a cataloguer to find a hacker.]
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford fall. London, Headline, 1996.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford knot. London, Headline, 1998.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford letters. London, Headline, 2006.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford mourning. Macmillan, London, 1995. (New York, Scribner, 1996)
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford proof.
Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford remains. London, Headline, 2005.
[Librarians (and libraries) feature in almost all of Stallwood's books, as central characters and occasionally as victims.]
Stein, Aaron M. The case of the absent-minded professor. Garden City, Doubleday, 1943. [Academic murder - some discussion of books and libraries.]
Steiner, Susan. Library: No murder aloud. New York, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1993. [Female PI Alex Winter makes book with a killer at a famous old California library.]
Stone, Hampton. The funniest killer in town. New York, Simon, 1967. [Features the NYPL.]
Stout, Rex. Murder by the book. New York, Bantam, 1992. [Murder of everyone who sees a certain manuscript.]
Stout, Rex. Plot it yourself. New York, Bantam. 1960. [Blackmail of publishers and writers.]
Straub, Peter. The Hellfire Club. New York, Random House, 1996. [At stake are the fates of a courageous woman and a long-established publishing house.]
Strong, Tony. The death pit. New York, Dell, 2000. [The letters of a 17th-century Scotswoman who was burned as a witch lead to a modern mystery.]
Sumner, Penny. The end of April. Tallahasee, Naiad Press, 1992. [Features lesbian archivist/detective Victoria Cross.]
Swaim, Don. The H. L. Mencken murder case. New York, St. Martin's, 1988. [Feature a bookseller and New York PL's lions.]
Swanson, Denise. Murder of a small town honey. New York, Signet, 2000. [Features Trixie the librarian.]
Swanson, Denise. Murder of a sweet old lady. New York, Signet, 2001 [Trixie, the librarian, returns to Scumble River.]
Swanson, Denise. "Not a monster of a chance." In Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle, And the dying is easy, New York, Signet, 2001 (pp. 276-290). [A high school librarian makes a very brief appearance.]
Swarthout, Glendon. Skeletons. New York, Pan, 1980. [Author and librarian investigate murder.]
Symons, Julian. Bland beginnings. London, Corgi, 1969. [Pamphlets are being stolen from libraries.]
Symons, Julian. The color of murder. New York, Harper, 1957. [Victim is (incidentally) a library assistant.]
Symons, Julian. The Kentish manor murders. New York, Penguin, 1988. [Mystery involving unpublished Doyle manuscript.]
Symons, Julian. The man who lost his wife. Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin, 1977. [Satirical mystery about a publisher who loses track of his wife while negotiating a book deal.]
Symons, Julian. A three-pipe problem. Kelly Bray, UK, House of Stratus, 2001.[The case takes Holmes into an adult bookstore.]

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Targ, William. The case of Mr. Cassidy. New York, Phoenix, 1939. [Chicago book collector murdered in his library.]
Taylor, Andrew. Caroline miniscule. London, Gollancz, 1982. [Involves a clue in a manuscript.]
Taylor, L. A. Footnote to murder. Minneapolis, Allau Press, 1993. Second copy bound with Detective Book Club edition filed under Harriss, Will. The Bay psalm book murder.
[Protagonist discovers crime while doing library research.]
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood see Tilton, Alice
Tey, Josephine. The daughter of time. New York, Macmillan, 1951. [A bibliographic digression into the Richard III murders.]
Thall, Michael. Let sleeping afghans lie. New York, Walker, l990. [Libidinous librarian involved in murder.]
Thomas, Ross, see Bleeck, Oliver.
Tilton, Alice [Phoebe Atwood Taylor]. Beginning with a bash. London, Collins, 1985. [Murder in a Boston secondhand bookstore.]
Tilton, Alice [Phoebe Atwood Taylor]. Dead Ernest. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1992. [Marginally bibliomystery - may feature scenes in bookstore or library.].
Tilton, Alice [Phoebe Atwood Taylor]. File for record. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1987. [A scholar finds a corpse lying on his library floor.]
Toth, Susan & John Coughlan (Eds.). Reading rooms. New York, Washington Square Press, 1991. [Anthology, Beatley PS509. P83R4 1991.]
Travis, Elizabeth. Finders keepers. New York, Worldwide, 1993.
Travis, Elizabeth. Under the influence. New York, Worldwide, 1992.
[Mystery book publishers Ben and Carrie Porter solve murders.]
Tremayne, Peter. Shroud for the Archbishop. London, Headline, 1995. [Books play an important part.]
Tremayne, Peter. Suffer little children. london, Headline, 1995. [An abbey librarian and her territory are essential to this mystery set in Celtic Munster, A.D. 665.]
Trevor, William. Love and summer: A novel. New York, Viking, 2009. [Involves papers of a long-penniless blueblood family.]
Trocheck, Kathy. To live and die in Dixie. New York, Harper, 1993. [Mystery involving missing diary of Civil War madam.]
Truman, Margaret. Murder at the Library of Congress. New York, Fawcett, 1999. [Gallery owner Annabel Smith looks for diary supposedly written by one of Columbus' crewman and finds murder instead.]
Tucker, Wilson. The Chinese doll. New York, Rinehart, 1946. ["Librarians are wonderful people. They should be in the detective business."]
Turner, James. Rex Libris. Vol 1: I, librarian. San Jose, SLG Publishing, August 2005.
Turner, James. Rex Libris. Vol 2: Labyrinth literature. San Jose, SLG Publishing, November 2005.
[Comic book featuring hero of the stack, Rex Libris.]
Tynan, Kathleen. Agatha. New York, Ballentine Books, 1978. [Suspense novel based loosely on the real life mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie.]

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Valin, Jonathon. Final notice. New York, Avon, 1982. [Features a seductive librarian.]
Van Gieson, Judith. "Lightning strikes twice". In Pittman, Joseph, & Annette Riffle, And the dying is easy, New York, Signet, 2001 (pp. 311-326). [Features scenes in a bookstore.]
Van Gieson, Judith. The stolen blue. New York, Signet, 2000. [Investigation of missing books.]
Van Gieson, Judith. Vanishing point. New York, Signet, 2001.
[Series protagonist Claire Reynier is an archivist and rare books librarian.]
Van Gulik, Robert. Poets and murder. New York, Scribner's, 1968. (London, Heinemann, 1968) [Murder mystery set in ancient China involving the court poet, a beautiful poetess, and a Chinese manuscript.]
Van Rindt, Philippe. The Tetramachus Collection. New York, Berkley, 1978. [Features the Vatican Library.]

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Wald, Noreen. Death comes for the critic. Prime Crime, 2000. [Ghostwriter solves murder of hated book critic.]
Waldron, Ann. The Princeton murders. New York, Prime Crime, 2003. [Journalist McLeod Delaney runs into foul play while teaching writing at Princeton.]
Wallace, Edgar. The door with seven locks. London, Hodder, 1926. [Theft from a public library.]
Walsh, Jill Paton. The Wyndham case. New York, St. Martin's, 1993. Advance uncorrected proofs. [Murder in library of Cambridge University's College of St. Agatha's.]
Warga, Wayne. Fatal impressions. New York, Penguin, 1990.
Warga, Wayne. Hardcover. New York, Penguin, 1985.
[Series involves Jeffrey Dean, rare book dealer, ex-journalist, ex-CIA courier.]
West, Nigel. Murder in the Commons. London, Headline, 1993. [The murdered man has a librarian mistress.]
Westbrook, Perry D. Infra blood. New York, Phoenix, 1950. [Someone is killing people in the Banks College Library in Maine during Christmas holidays.]
Westlake, Donald E. Drowned hopes. New York, Mysterious Press, 1990. [Bibliomysteriousness unverified.]
Whitney, Phyllis. A dream of orchids. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1985. [Narrator is bookstore owner.]
Wilcox, Colin. Doctor, lawyer. . . New York, Random House, 1976. [Involves the San Francisco Public Library.]
Wilhelm, Kate. The deepest water. New York, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000. [Abby must decipher clues in her murdered father's unfinished novel, the final book in a trilogy set in Southeast Asia and solve a mystery begun before she was born.]
Williams, David. Advertise for Treasure. New York, St. Martins, 1984. [Signed by the author.] [A major clue to solving the murder involves the Manchester Central Library.]
Williams, David. Murder in Advent. New York, Avon, 1987. [Theft of Magna Carta from cathedral library.]
Williams, David. Treasure preserved. New York, St. Martin's, 1983. [Murder involving the Tophaven Public Library.]
Williams, David. Unholy writ. New York, St. Martin's, 1976. [Plot involves manuscript copy of Shakespeare play.]
Williams, Sydney. The Drury Club case. New York, Grossett & Dunlap, 1927. [Denizens of Drury Club Library formulate a mystery plot.]
Williamson, J.N. The book of Webster's. Stamford, CT, Longmeadow Press, 1993. [A fortysomething misfit believes that the dictionary contains mystical powers; random sections reveal the secrets of life and death.]
Wills, Garry. At Buttons. Kansas City, Andrews & McMeel, 1979. [Murder in the foyer of the NYPL starts the case.]
Wilson, Barbara. "Murder at the International Feminist Bookfair". In Jen Green (Ed.), Reader, I murdered him: Original crime stories by women. New York, St. Martin's, 1989.
Wiltz, Chris. The killing circle. London, Mysterious Press, 1981. [New Orleans rare book world.]
Wings, Mary. She came by the book. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. [Set in San Francisco, a lesbian P.I. is entrusted with the private papers of an assassinated gay politician.]
Wolf, S. K. Mackinnon's machine. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1991. [Librarian assists armed forces agent in a plot involving political intrigue.]
Wolzien, Valerie. All hallows' evil. New York, Fawcett, 1992. [Death in a public library. Signed.]
Woods, Sara. They love not poison. New York, Raven House, 1972. [Murder clues found in library.]
Woodworth, Deborah. A deadly Shaker spring. New York, Avon, 1998. [Focuses on the journals some of the Shakers had kept and what would be called archives in many places -- they're just "records" in the records room here.]
Woolrich, Cornell. The book that squealed. In His Angels of darkness, Yonkers, Mysterious Press, 1978. Also in M. Greenberg & B. Pronzini (Eds.), Women sleuths (pp. 113-162), Chicago, Academy Chicago, 1985. (Academy mystery novellas 1). Originally published in Detective Story, August 1939. [Librarian solves kidnapping case.]
Wren, M. K. Curiosity didn't kill the cat. New York, Ballantine, 1973.
Wren, M. K. A multitude of sins. New York, Ballantine, 1975.
Wren, M. K. Nothing's certain but death. New York, Ballantine, 1978.
Wren, M. K. Oh, bury me not. New York, Doubleday, 1976.
Wren, M. K. Seasons of death. New York, Ballantine, 1981.
Wren, M. K. Wake up darlin' Corey. New York, Ballantine, 1985?
[Wren's protagonist, Conan Flagg, runs a used and rare bookstore.]
Wright, Austin. Tony and Susan. New York, Warner, 1993. [Struggling writer gets to know woman through her reading of his manuscript.]
Wright, Eric. Death of a Sunday writer. Woodstock, VT, Foul Play, 1996.
Wright, Eric. Death on the rocks. New York, St. Martin's, 1999.
[Features Lucy Trimble, a librarian who inherits a detective agency.]
Wright, L. R. A chill rain in January. New York, Penguin, 1991.
Wright, L. R. Fall from grace. New York, Penguin, 1992.
Wright, L. R. Mother love. New York, Scribner's, 1995.
Wright, L. R. Prized possessions. Toronto, Seal Books, 1994.
Wright, L. R. Sleep while I sing. London, Fontana, 1988.
Wright, L. R. Strangers among us. Toronto, McCleland-Bantam, 1997. (New York, Scribner's, 1996)
Wright, L. R. The suspect. Toronto, Seal, 1985.
Wright, L. R. A touch of panic. New York, Penguin, 1995.
[Wright's protagonist, Cassandra Mitchell, is a librarian.]
Wright, Sally. Pride and predator. New York, Ballantine, 1997.
Wright, Sally. Publish and perish. New York, Ballantine, 1999.
Wright, Sally. Pursuit and persuasion. New York, Fawcett, 2000.
[Wright's protagonist, Ben Reese, is an archivist.]

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Yumi,Kiiro. Library wars, vol. 1: Love & war. Translated and adapted by Kinami Watabe. San Francisco, VIZ Media, 2010. [The title says it all, and it's manga.]

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Zimler, Richard. The last kabbalist of Lisbon. Woodstock, Overlook Press, 1998. [A newly discovered manuscript by one Berekiah Zarco, Portuguese converso, secret Jew, manuscript illuminator and fledgling Kabbalist brilliantly transports the reader back to 1506 Lisbon, the infamous April massacre, a world of scholarship, mysticism, hidden books.]

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