| International Standard Book Number |
9781496749338
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| International Standard Book Number |
1496749332
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6
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| Personal Name |
Coyle, Cleo, author.
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| Title Statement |
The ghost and the dead librarian / Cleo Coyle.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xi, 368 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Series Statement |
A haunted bookshop detective mystery.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Publisher Annotation: As a young widow, Penelope moved back to her quaint Rhode Island town to give her young son a safer home and her aunt's dying bookshop new life. Using her late husband's insurance money, Pen polished the store into a local treasure. But her updates did more than attract new customers. They roused a dead private eye from his big sleep. With Pen's affection for hardboiled detective stories, it's no surprise she's developed a fondness for the wisecracking yet oddly likeable spirit. Sure, Jack's cold spots are exasperating, along with his proclivity for putting noir fiction in the cozy section. But murder was Jack's business in life, and his PI skills come in awfully handy when the body of an eccentric librarian is found amid the bookshop's aisles. For years, Dory jokingly called herself "The Dead Librarian" because of her hobby of collecting and writing local obituaries. Now, in death, she's discovered with her own eerily pre-written obit. Was it a suicide note? Jack and Pen say no and their certainty takes them from a ghost town's ancient cemetery to a posh Newport mansion. When another body drops, a mysterious stranger makes Pen a shocking offer, one that may change her life—and Jack's afterlife. But unless Jack can help Pen prove who "checked out" the librarian, a ruthless killer may close the book on her.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bookstores Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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