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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The man who loved books too much	Allison Hoover Bartlett	In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man deter…	OL13806329W
Bless the thief	Alan Wall	Tom Lynch becomes increasingly involved in the mysterious Delaquay Society, "an organization based on the works of Alfred Delaquary, a book illustrator of considerable genius and perversity." When th…	OL16068979W
The Sayers Swindle	Victoria Abbott	cozy mystery Part of the Book Collector Mystery Series by Victoria Abbott I read all of the five books in the Book Collector Mystery cozy mystery series why the mother and daughter author team,…	OL17533515W
El Señor Mee	Andrew Crumey	A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileles…	OL1833291W
The forgers	Bradford Morrow	The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary forger -- under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon W…	OL19990175W
The king's gold	Yxta Maya Murray	One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez—a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop—into the adventure of …	OL2000504W
The Wolfe widow	Victoria Abbott	When she is dismissed from her job without explanation, Jordan Bingham, researcher for the reclusive book collector Vera Van Alst, must save her former employer from a mysterious new visitor who has …	OL21179680W
Legacy of love	Dorothy Taylor	"Bookseller Kay Deacon learns that she has been left part of the late Tobias Garner's collection of antique books on condition she brings his records up to date. So when Tobias's nephew Marshall Garn…	OL24279008W
The witches' hammer	Jane Stanton Hitchcock	A respected surgeon and rare book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer the fifteenth-century manual of black magic—a grimoire—he'd rece…	OL2641766W
Murders in Volume 2	Elizabeth Daly	> “New York at its most charming” (New York Times) is the setting for Murders in Volume 2, first published in 1941. One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vau…	OL3466557W
Deadly Nightshade	Elizabeth Daly	Henry Gamadge, bibliophile and amateur detective, travels to Maine to help investigate a series of poisonings, which at first seem to be accidental. > New York bibliophile and sleuth Henry Gamadge…	OL3466564W
Unexpected Night	Elizabeth Daly	It was to have been just a few quiet days of golf for Henry Gamadge, the charming and genteel consultant on old books, autographs and inks—whose fame in detection surpassed his reputation as a biblio…	OL3466572W
A Pound of Paper	Baxter, John	In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleve…	OL46968W
R.O.D	Hideyuki Kurata	Yomiko Readman is more than the usual bibliophile. Her love for books goes so far that she actually has the supernatural ability to manipulate paper in any way she can imagine. As Agent Paper she wor…	OL8783550W