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Old 02-12-2013, 05:09 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by mitford13 View Post
Free on Amazon - originally published by Dodd Mead, 1987:

All Booked Up (A Basil and Hortense Killingsley Mystery) by Terrie Curran

Only weeks ago, Basil Killingsley was looking at a rare old book in the Smedley Library. Now he is back to take another look, and the book is gone—gone from the shelves, gone from the computer listings, gone from the memories of everyone who works there.
Basil is as indefatigable as he is eccentric. He will not rest until he finds the book and proves to all concerned that he is not imagining things. But more than Basil’s (considerable) ego is involved here: it is not just any book that is missing, but a 1495 Wynkyn de Worde edition of Ranulf Higden’s Policronicon, a book of historical and literary significance that is crucial to Basil’s research.
As Basil and his equally formidable wife, Hortense, are busy searching the Smedley for clues, members of the staff keep turning up murdered, more books mysteriously appear on the shelves, and a rich donor gets more than he bargained for in library operations.
But even the cleverest criminal is no match when the Killingsleys, with uncanny common sense and humor, apply their scholarly wits to matters odd and lethal.


First: Thank you for mentioning this title. I wanted it and so I 'purchased' it.

Unfortunately, "All Booked Up" is all messed up.

A horribly formatted ebook, in which the author should be roundly - and rightfully - embarrassed.

This is a warning to anyone contemplating getting this one.




Don

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