With Martin Edwards as librarian and guide, delve into an irresistible
stack of bibliomysteries, where golden age-inspired puzzle masters
[are] doing what they do best: bringing together readers, books, and
felonies [in] perhaps the single best collection yet in this blue-chip
series (Kirkus, Starred Review).
There is no better hiding place for clues--or red herrings--than inside
the pages of a book. But in this world of resentful ghost writers,
indiscreet playwrights, and unscrupulous book collectors, literary
prowess is often a prologue to disaster. Readers should be warned that
the most riveting tales often conceal the deadliest of secrets.
Featuring much-loved Golden Age detectives Nigel Strangeways, Philip
Trent, Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and others, a bookish
puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a
publisher recounts a murder that seems increasingly to be a work of
nonfiction; an irate novelist puts a grisly end to the source of his
writer's block.