Bibliomysteries Book C

Books: C

Summaries by Marsha McCurley, Candy Schwartz and Seth D. Bartner

Caird, Janet.
Murder Scholastic. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1967. 1st U.S HC, Doubleday Crime Club, 1968
Teachers are being killed at a Scottish school.

Camp, Roderic.
The Successor. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Professor Kent Cornett's friend, a research librarian in Mexico City, is brutally murdered and Kent must discover why and why the U.S intelligence community seeks his assistance

Campbell, R.T.(pseudonym of Ruthven Todd)
Bodies in a Bookshop. London, Westhouse, 1946. New York, Dover, 1984.
Scotland Yard detective and two botanists investigate the two bodies found in a bookshop.

Candy, Edward.
Bones of Contention. London, Gollancz, 1954; New York, Doubleday, 1983
Mr. Murivance, Director of the London Museum of Pathological Conditions in Childhood, is quite used to skeletons,but not to having them arrive packed in cabin trunks, with no return address. Features deeply ambitious museum librarian Dr. Victor Pounceforth.
Words for Murder Perhaps. London, Gollancz, 1971; New York, Doubleday, 1971
A university lecturer on detective fiction is suspected of being a serial murderer and of leaving a trail of clues from English poetry. The university librarian figures in as well. Series character: Police Supt. Burnivel

Cannell, Dorothy.
How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams. New York, MysteryBooks, 1995
The librarian's corpse is discovered in the stacks on the 100th anniversary of the death of Hector Rigglesworth, the ghost of the Chitterton Fells Library (and the one who laid a curse upon the library.)

Canning, Victor.
The Kingsford Mark. London, Heinemann, 1975; New York, William Morrow & Co., 1975.
A novel of family, of passion and revenge whose solution involves the decoding of diaries.

Carmichael, Fred.
Exit the Body. New York, S. French, 1962
Originally a stage play involving a woman mystery writer and a house with stolen gems hidden in it.

Carr, John Dickson.
He Who Whispers. New York, Harper, 1946
An historian hires a young woman named Fay Seton to catalog his uncle's large private library; several murders follow
House at Satan's Elbow. New York; Harper & Row, l965. New York, International Polygonics, 1987
Locked room mystery involving murder in stately home library.Series character: Dr. Gideon Fell
Deadly Hall. New York, Harper & Row, l971.
New Orleans born novelist Jeff Caldwell returns home in response to friend's frantic letter and inherits Dixieland Tobacco.

Carter, Amanda.
Write Me a Murder. New York, Zebra Books, 1979
Solve-it-yourself mystery about the death of a publisher

Carter, Diana.
Ghost Writer. London: Cassell, 1974.

1st U.S.,New York, Macmillan, 1975. New York, Macmillan, 1974
Manuscript is used to solve a murder

Carter, Robert A.
Final Edit. Mysterious Press/Time Warner, 1994.
Wicked and revealing behind-the-scenes romp through the lives of those who make books. A despised editor is dead and Borlow is the near-perfect suspect. 2nd Nicholas Barlow.

Chafets, Zev.
The Bookmakers. NY: Random House, 1995.
Comic caper about the book industry. A burned-out writer agrees to commit suicide for a huge book advance.

Chandler, Raymond.
The Big Sleep. New York, Knopf, 1939
Book store is front for pornography ring

Chemyonok, Mikhail.
Losing Bet. Garden City, Dial Press, 1984
Speculation in rare books and wide-spread bribery are involved in this contemporary work from the USSR

Childers, James Saxon.
The Bookshop Mystery. New York, Appleton, 1930
Classic spy novel with bookstores and manuscripts central to the plot. Has a wonderfully spooky period dust jacket.

Christie, Agatha.
The Secret of Chimneys. London, Lane, 1925; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1925
Climactic scene in a private library
The Body in the Library. London, Collins, 1942; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1942
It's a library in someone's house, and that's the only time the library appears.
Series Character: Jane Marple.

Clarke, Anna.
Plot Counter-Plot. London: Collins Crime Club, 1974; 1st U.S, Walker, NY, 1974
Two mystery novelists after each others plots.
The Lady in Black. New York, David McKay, 1977
A strange manuscript arrives at a London publisher in 1882
The Last Judgement. NY, Doubleday Crime Club,1985.
Are a renowned author's private manuscripts worth killing for?

Clarke, T.E.B.
Murder at Buckingham Palace. London, Robert Hale, 1981. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981
Solution lies in palace library. Scotland Yard is asked to hush-up a murder at the palace, just days before the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. Fiction presented as fact.

Clemeau, Carol.
The Ariadne Clue. New York, Scribner's, 1982
Professor of Classics Antonia Nelsen investigates the theft of some ancient gold artifacts from a college museum; involves lots of research is conducted in various libraries

Cleveland, John.
Minus One Corpse. New York, Arcadia, 1954
Bookseller detectives

Cline, Edward.
First Prize. NY, Mysterious press, 1988.
Chess Hanrahan, ex-cop and private eye in a case involving a literary award winner gone missing.

Coates, John.
Time for Tea. New York, Macmillan, 1950
Would-be mystery writer decides to write a detective novel but first tries to enact a real-life possible murder and comes up with a real corpse.

Coel, Margaret.
The Story Teller. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999
Vicky Holden investigates the death of an Indian student and the disappearance of a rare and priceless book, a unique pictorial record of Arapaho history.

Cohen, Matt.
The Bookseller. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1993. Paperback 1st HC & 1st U.S., New York: St Martin's Press, 1993.
A young man's love for a secretive woman who is obsessed with books and a mystery involving the underworld of drugs and gambling.

Collins, Max Allan.
Kill Your Darlings. New York, Walker, 1984
Series character, Mallory (never a first name). Murder of a mystery writer at the Chicago Bouchercon
A Shroud for Aquarius. New York, Walker, 1985
Detective story writer 'Mal' Mallory is called in the middle of the night by the sheriff of Port City, Iowa, who summons him to the outskirts of town where the body of his childhood friend and prototypical hippie, Ginnie Mullins has just been discovered. Sheriff Brennan suspects that her apparent suicide is murder.
A Nice Weekend for a Murder. New York, Walker, 1986
Murder among mystery writers and buffs at weekend retreat in New York State
The Titanic Murders. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999
Jacques Futrelle, a real-life mystery writer and author of a detective known as the 'Thinking Machine', was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. This imaginative story has the mystery writer investigating two murders aboard the doomed ship.

Collins, Randall (as Dr. John H. Watson).
The Case of the Philosopher's Ring. New York, Crown Publishers, 1978
Featuring Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, Leila Waddell, Aleister Crowley and Ludwig Wittgenstein's brain. Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian Underworld, Holmes and Watson enlist the help of several eminent Victorians in a bid to prevent Aleister Crowley, the 'world's most evil genius,' from 'stealing' the mind of Wittgenstein, and thereby undermining all of western civilization.

Colton, James.
The Outward Side. New York, The Other Traveller, 1971
Town librarian is accused of child molestation

Conde, Nicholas.
In the Deep Woods. NY, St. Martin's, 1989
An illustrator of nightmare inspiring drawings for children's books, becomes the potential victim of a serial killer whose specialty is career women.

Connelly, Michael.
The Poet. Boston, Little Brown, 1996
A brilliant killer who believes it's all poetic justice - so are his clues.

Conner, Kevin.
New Departure. New York, Jefferson House, 1962
Two thieves who are prison librarians plan a crime

Connington, J.J.
The Castleford Conundrum. Boston, Little, Brown, 1932.
The public library plays an important part in solving murder
Common Sense is All You Need. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1947.
Classic bibliomystery set in WW II England

Constantine, K.C.
Upon Some Midnights Clear. New York, Penguin, 1987
A librarian is one of the characters.
Bottom Liner Blues. New York, Mysterious Press, 1994
An eccentric Russian novelist who plans to take protagonist Mario Balzic hostage and librarian number among cast. Series character: Aging, small town in Pennsylvania Chief of Police Mario Balzic.

Converse, Florence.
Into the Void: A Bookshop Mystery. Boston, Little, 1926
Boston bookshop owner and poet both disappear

Conway, Peter.
Revised Proof. London, Macdonald, 1947
A publisher is murdered

Cook, Judith.
The Slicing Edge of Death. New York, St. Martins, 1993.
This historical thriller presents a chilling yet plausible solution to the four-hundred-year-old puzzle surrounding the mysterious death of the reckless and scandalous Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe.

Cooley, Martha.
The Archivist. Little, Brown, 1998.
Academic bibliomystery. Archivist/Librarian Matthias Lane is the literary guardian of a controversial sealed cache of T.S. Eliot letters.

Cooper, Natasha (Pseud. of Daphne Wright)
Festering Lilies. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 1990. (1st U.S. pub as A Common Death. NY, Crown Publishers, 1990 )
Willow King, a dowdy civil servant to the world, is in her private life, a highly successful romantic novelist. Ms. King solves the murder of a Minister in the 'Department of Old Age Pensions.' 1st in the Williow KingSeries.
Poisoned Flowers. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1991. (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers, 1991)
2nd Willow King in which only she and Inspector Tom King are convinced that several seemingly unrelated deaths by poisoning are all victims of a serial killer.
Bloody Roses. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1992 . (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers, 1992.
3rd Willow King. Willow must interrupt her idyllic Italian holiday with Chief Inspector Tom Worth to save her former lover who has been arrested for the murder of a female colleague.
Bitter Herbs. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1993 . (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers,1993.
4th Willow King. Despite Inspector Worth's professional opinion, Willow King believes that a famous novelist did not die of natural causes and sets out to prove it, jeopardizing her double identity and nearly becoming the killer's next victim.

Cornwell, Patricia.
Body of Evidence. London, Macdonald, 1991. 1st US, New York, Scribner's, 1991.
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta hunts a deranged killer who stalks and murders a noted novelist and then seems to be working his way back through the writer's past. The second Dr. Kay Scarpetta mystery.

Cory, Desmond.
Bennett. Garden City, Doubleday Crime Club, 1977. 1st UK, London, Macmillan, 1977
A mystery writer disappears after he is suspected of murder

Courtier, S.H.
Ligny's Lake. Kent Town, Australia, Wakefield Press, 1971; 1st U.S, New York, Simon & Shuster, 1971
Set in Australia involving a 70-year-old copy of Thoreau's Walden.

Coyne, P.J. (pseud. of John Creasy)
The Theft Of The Magna Carta. NY, Scribners. 1973.
Magna Carta is stolen from Salisbury Cathedral Library; Superintendent West solves mystery.
Manuscript for Murder. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1987.
Three murders: Hardy West, author of a political expose, West's manuscript is also stolen; a writer friend of Ned Spearbroke and the friend's assistant. Spearbroke, West's agent, must get to the bottom of a very nasty snake pit.

Craig, Philip R.
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea. New York, Macmillan, 1991
Plagiarism, involves library. All of the author's novels take place on Martha's Vineyard, MA. Series character: J.W. Jackson

Crais, Robert.
Stalking the Angel. New York, Bantam, 1989
Involves a three million dollar 17th century Japanese manuscript and clues found in a library.

Cranston, Maurice.
To-morrow We'll Be Sober. London, John Westhouse, 1946
Corpse found in a publisher's home

Crider, Bill.
Booked for a Hanging. New York, St. Martins, 1992.
Rare book dealer and con man Simon Graham's presumed suicide seems less likely when it is learned that Graham was rumored to have an extremely valuable book among his, otherwise, near worthless stock.

Crispin, Edmund.
Love Lies Bleeding. London, Gollancz, 1948; Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1948
A rare literary treasure has the power to turn scholars into murderers; Gervase Fen investigates murder at Castrevenford School

Crombie, Deborah.
Dreaming of the Bones. New York, Scribner, 1997.
Obsession has taken hold of feminist biographer Victoria McClellan, who finds herself immersed in the poet, Lydia Brooke's world of Cambridge in the 60's and her apparent suicide. She calls on her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Spt. Duncan Kincaid for help, but before he can take action, Victoria herself is dead.

Cross, Amanda.(Pseud. of Carolyn Heilbrun)
The James Joyce Murder. 1st U.K, London, Gollancz, 1967. New York, Macmillan, 1967
Cataloger of literary archives solves murder
The Question of Max. New York, Knopf, 1976
Murder around an author's literary remains
Poetic Justice. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
3rd Kate Fansler. Chock full o' W. H. Auden, including epigraphs for each chapter.
Death in a Tenured Position. New York, Dutton, 1981.
6th Kate Fansler. Harvard receives a million dollar bequest to fund a Chair in the English Department. The only catch is that it must be occupied by a woman and the department's faculty is less than pleased, one member, particularly, so.Kate Fansler goes on sabbatical to discover which of them believes that the sword is mightier than the pen. Nero Wolfe Award
No Word from Winifred. New York, Dutton, l986.
8th Kate Fansler. With no more to go on than her missing friend's journal, Kate follows a trail leading from Oxford to an MLA convention in NYC. A true bibliomystery.
A Trap for Fools. New York, Dutton, 1989.
9th Kate Fansler. When Canfield Adams, late professor of Middle Eastern Culture, is found a bit worse off for having fallen from his office window, 7 stories above, Kate is call in to help solve the crime. She is, at best, ambivalent about the assignment.
The Players Come Again. New York, Random House, 1990
10th Kate Fansler. While digging into the Foxx family's background for a biography she is commissioned to write, Kate uncovers a most complex secret.

Curran, Terrie
All Booked Up. NY, Dodd Mead, 1987. Toronto, Worldwide, 1989
Author's 1st mystery introduces Basil Killingsley. An edition of Ranulf Higden's 15th century Polychronicon printed by Wynkyn de Worde disappears from the Smedley Library's rare books collection, and staff members are turning up dead.

Cushing, E. Louise.
Blood On My Rug. New York, Arcadia, 1956
Murder in a bookstore, bookseller detective. The 2nd Inspector Mackay; mystery set in Montreal.

Cutter, Leela.
Death of the Party. New York, St. Martins, 1985.
Author is the detective.

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Caird, Janet. Murder Scholastic. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1967. 1st U.S HC, Doubleday Crime Club, 1968 Teachers are being killed at a Scottish school.
Camp, Roderic. The Successor. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1993. Professor Kent Cornett's friend, a research librarian in Mexico City, is brutally murdered and Kent must discover why and why the U.S intelligence community seeks his assistance
Campbell, R.T.(pseudonym of Ruthven Todd) Bodies in a Bookshop. London, Westhouse, 1946. New York, Dover, 1984. Scotland Yard detective and two botanists investigate the two bodies found in a bookshop.
Candy, Edward. Bones of Contention. London, Gollancz, 1954; New York, Doubleday, 1983 Mr. Murivance, Director of the London Museum of Pathological Conditions in Childhood, is quite used to skeletons,but not to having them arrive packed in cabin trunks, with no return address. Features deeply ambitious museum librarian Dr. Victor Pounceforth. Words for Murder Perhaps. London, Gollancz, 1971; New York, Doubleday, 1971 A university lecturer on detective fiction is suspected of being a serial murderer and of leaving a trail of clues from English poetry. The university librarian figures in as well. Series character: Police Supt. Burnivel
Cannell, Dorothy. How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams. New York, MysteryBooks, 1995 The librarian's corpse is discovered in the stacks on the 100th anniversary of the death of Hector Rigglesworth, the ghost of the Chitterton Fells Library (and the one who laid a curse upon the library.)
Canning, Victor. The Kingsford Mark. London, Heinemann, 1975; New York, William Morrow & Co., 1975. A novel of family, of passion and revenge whose solution involves the decoding of diaries.
Carmichael, Fred. Exit the Body. New York, S. French, 1962 Originally a stage play involving a woman mystery writer and a house with stolen gems hidden in it.
Carr, John Dickson. He Who Whispers. New York, Harper, 1946 An historian hires a young woman named Fay Seton to catalog his uncle's large private library; several murders follow House at Satan's Elbow. New York; Harper & Row, l965. New York, International Polygonics, 1987 Locked room mystery involving murder in stately home library.Series character: Dr. Gideon Fell Deadly Hall. New York, Harper & Row, l971. New Orleans born novelist Jeff Caldwell returns home in response to friend's frantic letter and inherits Dixieland Tobacco.
Carter, Amanda. Write Me a Murder. New York, Zebra Books, 1979 Solve-it-yourself mystery about the death of a publisher
Carter, Diana. Ghost Writer. London: Cassell, 1974. 1st U.S.,New York, Macmillan, 1975. New York, Macmillan, 1974 Manuscript is used to solve a murder
Carter, Robert A. Final Edit. Mysterious Press/Time Warner, 1994. Wicked and revealing behind-the-scenes romp through the lives of those who make books. A despised editor is dead and Borlow is the near-perfect suspect. 2nd Nicholas Barlow.
Chafets, Zev. The Bookmakers. NY: Random House, 1995. Comic caper about the book industry. A burned-out writer agrees to commit suicide for a huge book advance.
Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. New York, Knopf, 1939 Book store is front for pornography ring
Chemyonok, Mikhail. Losing Bet. Garden City, Dial Press, 1984 Speculation in rare books and wide-spread bribery are involved in this contemporary work from the USSR
Childers, James Saxon. The Bookshop Mystery. New York, Appleton, 1930 Classic spy novel with bookstores and manuscripts central to the plot. Has a wonderfully spooky period dust jacket.
Christie, Agatha. The Secret of Chimneys. London, Lane, 1925; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1925 Climactic scene in a private library The Body in the Library. London, Collins, 1942; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1942 It's a library in someone's house, and that's the only time the library appears. Series Character: Jane Marple.
Clarke, Anna. Plot Counter-Plot. London: Collins Crime Club, 1974; 1st U.S, Walker, NY, 1974 Two mystery novelists after each others plots. The Lady in Black. New York, David McKay, 1977 A strange manuscript arrives at a London publisher in 1882 The Last Judgement. NY, Doubleday Crime Club,1985. Are a renowned author's private manuscripts worth killing for?
Clarke, T.E.B. Murder at Buckingham Palace. London, Robert Hale, 1981. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981 Solution lies in palace library. Scotland Yard is asked to hush-up a murder at the palace, just days before the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. Fiction presented as fact.
Clemeau, Carol. The Ariadne Clue. New York, Scribner's, 1982 Professor of Classics Antonia Nelsen investigates the theft of some ancient gold artifacts from a college museum; involves lots of research is conducted in various libraries
Cleveland, John. Minus One Corpse. New York, Arcadia, 1954 Bookseller detectives
Cline, Edward. First Prize. NY, Mysterious press, 1988. Chess Hanrahan, ex-cop and private eye in a case involving a literary award winner gone missing.
Coates, John. Time for Tea. New York, Macmillan, 1950 Would-be mystery writer decides to write a detective novel but first tries to enact a real-life possible murder and comes up with a real corpse.
Coel, Margaret. The Story Teller. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999 Vicky Holden investigates the death of an Indian student and the disappearance of a rare and priceless book, a unique pictorial record of Arapaho history.
Cohen, Matt. The Bookseller. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1993. Paperback 1st HC & 1st U.S., New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. A young man's love for a secretive woman who is obsessed with books and a mystery involving the underworld of drugs and gambling.
Collins, Max Allan. Kill Your Darlings. New York, Walker, 1984 Series character, Mallory (never a first name). Murder of a mystery writer at the Chicago Bouchercon A Shroud for Aquarius. New York, Walker, 1985 Detective story writer 'Mal' Mallory is called in the middle of the night by the sheriff of Port City, Iowa, who summons him to the outskirts of town where the body of his childhood friend and prototypical hippie, Ginnie Mullins has just been discovered. Sheriff Brennan suspects that her apparent suicide is murder. A Nice Weekend for a Murder. New York, Walker, 1986 Murder among mystery writers and buffs at weekend retreat in New York State The Titanic Murders. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999 Jacques Futrelle, a real-life mystery writer and author of a detective known as the 'Thinking Machine', was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. This imaginative story has the mystery writer investigating two murders aboard the doomed ship.
Collins, Randall (as Dr. John H. Watson). The Case of the Philosopher's Ring. New York, Crown Publishers, 1978 Featuring Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, Leila Waddell, Aleister Crowley and Ludwig Wittgenstein's brain. Amid the drugs and cult mysticism of the Edwardian Underworld, Holmes and Watson enlist the help of several eminent Victorians in a bid to prevent Aleister Crowley, the 'world's most evil genius,' from 'stealing' the mind of Wittgenstein, and thereby undermining all of western civilization.
Colton, James. The Outward Side. New York, The Other Traveller, 1971 Town librarian is accused of child molestation
Conde, Nicholas. In the Deep Woods. NY, St. Martin's, 1989 An illustrator of nightmare inspiring drawings for children's books, becomes the potential victim of a serial killer whose specialty is career women.
Connelly, Michael. The Poet. Boston, Little Brown, 1996 A brilliant killer who believes it's all poetic justice - so are his clues.
Conner, Kevin. New Departure. New York, Jefferson House, 1962 Two thieves who are prison librarians plan a crime
Connington, J.J. The Castleford Conundrum. Boston, Little, Brown, 1932. The public library plays an important part in solving murder Common Sense is All You Need. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. Classic bibliomystery set in WW II England
Constantine, K.C. Upon Some Midnights Clear. New York, Penguin, 1987 A librarian is one of the characters. Bottom Liner Blues. New York, Mysterious Press, 1994 An eccentric Russian novelist who plans to take protagonist Mario Balzic hostage and librarian number among cast. Series character: Aging, small town in Pennsylvania Chief of Police Mario Balzic.
Converse, Florence. Into the Void: A Bookshop Mystery. Boston, Little, 1926 Boston bookshop owner and poet both disappear
Conway, Peter. Revised Proof. London, Macdonald, 1947 A publisher is murdered
Cook, Judith. The Slicing Edge of Death. New York, St. Martins, 1993. This historical thriller presents a chilling yet plausible solution to the four-hundred-year-old puzzle surrounding the mysterious death of the reckless and scandalous Elizabethan playwright, Christopher Marlowe.
Cooley, Martha. The Archivist. Little, Brown, 1998. Academic bibliomystery. Archivist/Librarian Matthias Lane is the literary guardian of a controversial sealed cache of T.S. Eliot letters.
Cooper, Natasha (Pseud. of Daphne Wright) Festering Lilies. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 1990. (1st U.S. pub as A Common Death. NY, Crown Publishers, 1990 ) Willow King, a dowdy civil servant to the world, is in her private life, a highly successful romantic novelist. Ms. King solves the murder of a Minister in the 'Department of Old Age Pensions.' 1st in the Williow KingSeries. Poisoned Flowers. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1991. (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers, 1991) 2nd Willow King in which only she and Inspector Tom King are convinced that several seemingly unrelated deaths by poisoning are all victims of a serial killer. Bloody Roses. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1992 . (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers, 1992. 3rd Willow King. Willow must interrupt her idyllic Italian holiday with Chief Inspector Tom Worth to save her former lover who has been arrested for the murder of a female colleague. Bitter Herbs. London, Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1993 . (U.S. 1st, NY, Crown Publishers,1993. 4th Willow King. Despite Inspector Worth's professional opinion, Willow King believes that a famous novelist did not die of natural causes and sets out to prove it, jeopardizing her double identity and nearly becoming the killer's next victim.
Cornwell, Patricia. Body of Evidence. London, Macdonald, 1991. 1st US, New York, Scribner's, 1991. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta hunts a deranged killer who stalks and murders a noted novelist and then seems to be working his way back through the writer's past. The second Dr. Kay Scarpetta mystery.
Cory, Desmond. Bennett. Garden City, Doubleday Crime Club, 1977. 1st UK, London, Macmillan, 1977 A mystery writer disappears after he is suspected of murder
Courtier, S.H. Ligny's Lake. Kent Town, Australia, Wakefield Press, 1971; 1st U.S, New York, Simon & Shuster, 1971 Set in Australia involving a 70-year-old copy of Thoreau's Walden.
Coyne, P.J. (pseud. of John Creasy) The Theft Of The Magna Carta. NY, Scribners. 1973. Magna Carta is stolen from Salisbury Cathedral Library; Superintendent West solves mystery. Manuscript for Murder. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1987. Three murders: Hardy West, author of a political expose, West's manuscript is also stolen; a writer friend of Ned Spearbroke and the friend's assistant. Spearbroke, West's agent, must get to the bottom of a very nasty snake pit.
Craig, Philip R. The Woman Who Walked into the Sea. New York, Macmillan, 1991 Plagiarism, involves library. All of the author's novels take place on Martha's Vineyard, MA. Series character: J.W. Jackson
Crais, Robert. Stalking the Angel. New York, Bantam, 1989 Involves a three million dollar 17th century Japanese manuscript and clues found in a library.
Cranston, Maurice. To-morrow We'll Be Sober. London, John Westhouse, 1946 Corpse found in a publisher's home
Crider, Bill. Booked for a Hanging. New York, St. Martins, 1992. Rare book dealer and con man Simon Graham's presumed suicide seems less likely when it is learned that Graham was rumored to have an extremely valuable book among his, otherwise, near worthless stock.
Crispin, Edmund. Love Lies Bleeding. London, Gollancz, 1948; Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1948 A rare literary treasure has the power to turn scholars into murderers; Gervase Fen investigates murder at Castrevenford School
Crombie, Deborah. Dreaming of the Bones. New York, Scribner, 1997. Obsession has taken hold of feminist biographer Victoria McClellan, who finds herself immersed in the poet, Lydia Brooke's world of Cambridge in the 60's and her apparent suicide. She calls on her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Spt. Duncan Kincaid for help, but before he can take action, Victoria herself is dead.
Cross, Amanda.(Pseud. of Carolyn Heilbrun) The James Joyce Murder. 1st U.K, London, Gollancz, 1967. New York, Macmillan, 1967 Cataloger of literary archives solves murder The Question of Max. New York, Knopf, 1976 Murder around an author's literary remains Poetic Justice. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 3rd Kate Fansler. Chock full o' W. H. Auden, including epigraphs for each chapter. Death in a Tenured Position. New York, Dutton, 1981. 6th Kate Fansler. Harvard receives a million dollar bequest to fund a Chair in the English Department. The only catch is that it must be occupied by a woman and the department's faculty is less than pleased, one member, particularly, so.Kate Fansler goes on sabbatical to discover which of them believes that the sword is mightier than the pen. Nero Wolfe Award No Word from Winifred. New York, Dutton, l986. 8th Kate Fansler. With no more to go on than her missing friend's journal, Kate follows a trail leading from Oxford to an MLA convention in NYC. A true bibliomystery. A Trap for Fools. New York, Dutton, 1989. 9th Kate Fansler. When Canfield Adams, late professor of Middle Eastern Culture, is found a bit worse off for having fallen from his office window, 7 stories above, Kate is call in to help solve the crime. She is, at best, ambivalent about the assignment. The Players Come Again. New York, Random House, 1990 10th Kate Fansler. While digging into the Foxx family's background for a biography she is commissioned to write, Kate uncovers a most complex secret.
Curran, Terrie All Booked Up. NY, Dodd Mead, 1987. Toronto, Worldwide, 1989 Author's 1st mystery introduces Basil Killingsley. An edition of Ranulf Higden's 15th century Polychronicon printed by Wynkyn de Worde disappears from the Smedley Library's rare books collection, and staff members are turning up dead.
Cushing, E. Louise. Blood On My Rug. New York, Arcadia, 1956 Murder in a bookstore, bookseller detective. The 2nd Inspector Mackay; mystery set in Montreal.
Cutter, Leela. Death of the Party. New York, St. Martins, 1985. Author is the detective.