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A light pick, the best part of the book was the depiction of police procedures of the 50s and the truthful depiction of the surprisingly less than genteel and scholarly antiquarian book trade and the eccentric characters who practiced it. The mystery itself was simply the hanger on which to hang observations of the chicanery surrounding the trade. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-death-of-bookseller-by-bernard-j....

I bought this back in May and a friend asked me to pass it along to her when I finished it. Unsurprisingly, I haven‘t even started it yet. Since I have to go back home shortly, and I don‘t live anywhere close to my summer friend, methinks it‘s time to start it so I can, in fact, pass it along before I leave.

This did turn out to be quite the interesting cast of characters, though few of them actually read, so I didn't find it as charming as you'd have expected! They're all about buying/selling/collecting books.

Enjoyable, though, and I didn't figure out the killer.

I'd be finding this book more charming if anyone seemed to ever read books, rather than run around selling them for as much money as possible. The bookselling is just set dressing, this way. And I have no idea of how this is going to work out, feels like there's no clue yet to who has actually done the murder if it somehow isn't Hampton.

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“Do you know, Sergeant, there are men and even women who would cheerfully kill me to get what I found today?”

Sergeant Wigan escorts home a tipsy bookseller who‘s been celebrating a huge find, a signed copy of Keats‘ Endymion. The budding bibliophile copper strikes up a friendship with the bookman and finds himself on the case when his new friend is discovered murdered in his impressive library.

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