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Bibliomysteries

What do libraries, booksellers, and authors have in common? Books, books, books. This category may possibly burst our bindings; however, we are trying to limit this list to sleuths who are librarians, booksellers, and authors who solve the crime. Librarians just can’t help themselves as they investigate the clues that perplex them, and booksellers are another form of librarian that potentially makes oodles more money. Authors are included (although they would make a nifty category all on their own) because they write the books librarians loan and booksellers vend. Many of these mysteries take place in the libraries, the bookstores, and authors’ habitats; however, the crime can occur anywhere that these lovers of the written word (publication, work, writing; scroll; booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet, magazine, pamphlet; compendium, handbook, manual, monograph, textbook, tract, treatise; codex; novel Merriam-Webster Thesaurus) happen to exist. Most of these mysteries easily fall into the Cozy category with very few exceptions.

The following is a list of authors who fit into this category. The titles in each series is given.

AUTHOR PROTAGONIST TITLES
Jeff Abbott Librarian, Jordan Poteet Do Unto Others (1994)
Only Good Yankee (1995)
Distant Blood (1996)
Promises of Home (1996)
Lydia Adamson Ex-Librarian, Lucy Wayles, Bird-watcher Beware the Tufted Duck (1996)
Beware the Butcher Bird (1997)
Beware the Laughing Gull (1998)
Garrison Allen Bookseller, Penelope Warren Desert Cat (1994) NOT IN NOBLE.
Royal Cat (1995)
Stable Cat (1996)
Baseball Cat (1997)
Dinosaur Cat (1998)
Movie Cat (1999)
Isaac Asimov Authors Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes (1976)
Carlos Baker Authors Gay Head Conspiracy (1973)
Jen Banbury Booksellers Like a Hole in the Head (1998), See review of this title.
Stephanie Barron Jane Austen, Author Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (1996)
Jane and the Man of the Cloth (1997)
Jane and the Wandering Eye (1998)
Jane and the Genius of the Place (1998)
Jane and the Stillroom Maid (2000)
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House (2001)
Jane and the Ghost of Netley (2003)
George Baxt Authors Dorothy Parker Murder (1989).
Lawrence Block Authors Burglar in the Library: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery (1997)
Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery (1996)
Marshall Browne Librarians Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools (2002)
Dorothy Cannell Libraries How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams (1995)
Lillian Stewart Carl School Librarians Memory and Desire (2000)
Bill Crider Rare Books Booked for a Hanging (1992)
Amanda Cross Authors James Joyce Murder (1967)
Jo Dereske Helma Zukas, Librarian Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (1994)
Miss Zukas and the Island Murders (1995)
Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death (1996)
Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance (1996)
Out of Circulation (1997)
Final Notice (1998)
Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow (1999)
Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence (2001)
Charles Dickens Author The D. Case or the Truth about the Mystery of Edwin Drood. (1992)
Carole Nelson Douglas Midnight Louie (Cat) Catnap (1992)
Pussyfoot (1993)
Cat on a Blue Monday (1994)
Cat in a Crimson Haze (1995)
John Dunning Rare Books Booked to Die: A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway (1992)
Bookman's Wake (1995)
Umberto Eco Medieval Libraries The Name of the Rose (1983)
Terence Faherty Authors The Lost Keats (1993)
Mark P. Friedlander Authors Shakepeare Transcripts (1993)
Bartholomew Gill Authors Death of an Ardent Bibliophile: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1995)
Death of a Joyce Scholar (1989)
Charles Goodrum Crighton Jones, Librarian Dewey Decimated (1977)
Carnage of the Realm (1979)
Best Cellar (1987)
Slip of the Tong (1992)
Joe W. Haldeman Authors Hemingway Hoax (1990)
David Handler Authors The Man Who Would be F. Scott Fitzgerald (1991)
Charlaine Harris Librarians A Fool and His Honey (1999)
Will Harriss Rare Books Bay Psalm Book Murder (1983)
Carolyn G. Hart Booksellers See Husband & Wife Teams for the Annie & Max Darling Series
Sam Hawke Authors A Mystery of Errors (2000)
Peter J. Heck Authors Death On the Mississippi: A Mark Twain Mystery (1995)
A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court (1996)
The Prince and the Prosecutor (1997)
Guilty Abroad (1999)
Mysterious Strangler (2000)
Tom's Lawyer (2001)
Joan Hess Booksellers See Comic Capers for the Claire Malloy series.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock Rare Books Witches' Hammer (1994)
William Hjortsberg Authors Nevermore (1994)
H. Paul Jeffers Authors Corpus Corpus: A Sergeant Bogdonavich Mystery (1998)
Ross King Booksellers/Libraries Ex-libris (2001)
Allen Kurzweil Librarians Grand Complication (2001)
Jane Langton Authors/Rare Books Transcendental Murder: A Homer Kelly Mystery (1964)
Emily Dickinson is Dead: A Homer Kelly Mystery (1984)
Thief of Venice: A Homer Kelly Mystery (1999)
Gaylord Larson Authors Dorothy and Agatha (1990)
Genevieve Lyons Antiquarian Booksellers Drowning of Allison Alyward: A Mark Dangerfield Detective Novel (2001)
Marianne Macdonald Antiquarian Bookseller Death's Autograph: A Dido Hoare Mystery (1997)
Ghost Walk (1997)
Smoke Screen (1999)
Road Kill (2000)
Blood Lies (2002)
Die Once (2003)
D.R. Meredith Librarians See Cozy Mysteries for the Megan Clark series.
Christopher Morley Booksellers Haunted Booshop (1919)
Miriam Grace Monfredo Librarian Seneca Falls Inheritence: Glynis Tryon (1992)
North Star Conspiracy (1993)
Blackwater Spirits (1995)
Through a Gold Eagle (1996)
Stalking Horse (1998)
Must the Maiden Die (1999)
Walter Mosley Booksellers Fearless Jones (2001)
William F. Nolan Authors Marble Orchard: A Novel Featuring the Black Mask Boys: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner (1996)
Ellen Pall Authors Slightly Abridged: A Nine Muses Mystery: Erato (2003)
William J. Palmer Authors Detective and Mr. Dickens (1990)
Highwayman and Mr. Dickens (1992)
Hoydens and Mr. Dickens (1997)
Dons and Mr. Dickens (2000)
Arturo Perez-Reverte Authors Club Dumas, or The Shadow of Richelieu (1996)
Robert J. Randisi Antiquarian Bookseller Masks of Auntie Laveau: Gil and Claire Hunt Mystery (2002)
Peter Rowland Authors Disappearance of Edwin Drood (1992)
Walter Satterthwait Authors Wilde West (1991)
Masquerade (1998)
Corinne Holt Sawyer Authors J. Alfred Prufrock Murders (1988)
Sheila Simonson Booksellers Skylark (1992)
Edith Skom Authors Mark Twain Murders (1989)
Charles Dickens Murders (1998)
Julie Smith Authors Huckleberry Fiend (1987)
Barbara Steward Authors Evermore (1978)
Julian Symons Authors Kentish Manor Murders (1988)
Margaret Truman Rare Books/Library Murder at the Library of Congress (1999)
James Tully Authors Crimes of Charlotte Bronte: The Secrets of a Mysterious Family (1999)
Jonathan Valin Librarians Final Notice (1980)
Judith Van Gieson Manuscripts/Rare Books Stolen Blue: A Claire Reynier Mystery (2000)
Land of Burning Heat (2003)
N.L. Zaroulis Authors Poe Papers: A Tale of Passion (1977)


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