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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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| Summary |
When botanist Max Boyle ventures into a little shop around the corner from London's Tottenham Court Road, he's delighted by the bibliophile treasures he finds. But he's less charmed by the two corpses he stumbles upon in a back room. Boyle summons The Bishop," Chief Inspector Reginald F. Bishop of Scotland Yard, who in turn calls in Professor John Stubbs, a rotund amateur criminologist. The pipe-smoking, beer-drinking professor, the skeptical, world-weary Bishop, and the protesting Boyle -- who would rather be basking in the sun on the Isles of Scilly -- soon discover a web of skulduggery and dark deeds. Fueled as much by the friction between their personalities as their enthusiasm, the crime-solving trio threads a maze through the city's book and print emporia, grappling with a puzzle likely to baffle even the most astute armchair detectives. Bodies in a Bookshop is loaded with amusing sallies of wit, quaint and pungent observations, and droll characters. Crisp dialogue keeps the plot moving at top speed. A treat for mystery lovers and those who appreciate a rummage through musty bookshops, this novel is as exuberantly readable as it was upon its original publication in 1946.". |
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Print version record. |
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Bookstores -- Fiction.
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Botanists -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Campbell, R. T., 1914-1978. Bodies in a bookshop. Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2018. 9780486784434 (DLC)2017039665 |
| ISBN |
9780486831220 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9780486831220 |
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