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Gard, Oliver. The Seventh Chasm. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1953 Unsuspecting professor comes into possession of a Dante manuscript that holds the key to a mystery.
Garfield, Henry. Moondog. New York, St. Martin's, 1995 Reclusive writer Cyrus 'Moondog' Nygerski is compelled to discover how and why two women are found dead a month apart, apparent victims of a mountain lion, on successive full moon nights.
Garland, Lawrence. The Affair of the Unprincipled Publisher. New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll Books, 1983 Newly discovered Sherlockian case, as told by Watson, proves that the famous book collector, authority on 19th century pamphlets and notorious forger of same, Thomas J. Wise was NOT the nefarious Professor Moriarty, as erroneously reported in 1966 by (see:) Katharine Pedley in Moriarty in the Stacks.
Garrett, Truman. Murder -- First edition. New York, Arcadia House, 1956 Northrup Public Library staff member is murdered.
Garve, Andrew (pseudonym of Paul Winterton) The Galloway case. New York, Harper & Row, 1958 Murder of a blackmailing librarian
Gibbs, Tony. Shadow Queen. New York, Mysterious Press, 1992. Involving a writer and the lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, featuring Diana Speed. Do her letters prove that Mary Queen of Scots murder her husband, Lord Darnley, to marry her lover?
Gifford, Thomas. The Wind Chill Factor. New York, Putnam, 1975 Town library is blown up and librarian murdered The Glendower Legacy. New York, Putnam, 1978 Discovery of historical documents proving that George Washington contacted the English during the winter of 1778 leads to murder
Gilbert, Michael. The Etruscan Net. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969; U.S. (title: The Family Tomb) New York, Harper, 1969 Bookseller detective in plot that revolves around Etruscan antiquities
Gill, B.M. (pseudonym of Barbara M. Trimble) Seminar for Murder. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985; 1st U.S., New York, Scribner's, 1985 Murder at a mystery writers' weekend seminar. Series character: Detective Chief Inspector Tom Maybridge.
Gill, Bartholomew. (pseudonym of Mark McGarrity) Death of a Joyce Scholar. New York, William Morrow, 1989 Eighth in the Peter McGarr series, this one regarding the of a head librarian in Dublin on Bloomsday. Series character: Peter McGarr, Chief Superintendent of the Serious Crimes Unit of the Garda Solchana, Irish Police. New York Times list of notable crime novels. Edgar & MacAvity Award nominee. The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile. New York, Morrow, 1995 McGarr must search through Jonathan Swift's work for clues to the murder of the 'keeper' of Dublin's famed Marsh's Library, Brian Herrick, a man obsessed with the writings of Jonathan Swift, and with pleasures of a more licentious nature.
Gilman, Dorothy. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Garden City, Doubleday, 1966 Novel of the extraordinary adventures of a most unusual secret agent in which a spy uses a bookstore to make contact. The 1st Mrs. Polifax and authors 1st mystery.
Gilroy, Frank D. From Noon Till Three. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1973. A wild west bank robber with a horse gone lame, Amanda Starbuck alone in her mansion, their confrontation and an amazing letter she later wrote to the Editor of the Gladstone City Gazette about a most bloody event &endash; but was it the truth?
Girdner, Jaqueline. Death Hits The Fan. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1999 An author dies at a bookstore reading and Kate Jasper must determine whether a crazed fan or an unhappy bookstore employee is the murderer.
Golden, Christopher. Of Saints and Shadows. New York, Jove, 1994 When a mysterious and ancient book, called The Gospel of Shadows, is stolen from a secret Vatican sect dedicated to the destruction of vampires, private detective Peter Octavian, a vampire himself, is drawn into a desperate search for the missing book
Golding, William. Darkness Visible. London, Faber and Faber, 1979 1st U.S., New York, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1979. Characters drift in and out of bookstore in story where witchcraft and piety compete during the Blitz over London.
Goldsborough, Robert. The Missing Chapter. New York, Bantam Books, 1994. 7th of Goldsborough's Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe mysteries. Profoundly disliked, Charles Childress, the author contracted to continue a popular detective series after its originator's death is, at first, believed to be a suicide.
Goodrum, Charles A. Dewey Decimated. New York, Crown Publishers, 1977 The serene world of the Werner Bok Library, its rare books and cultivated librarians is beset by Rumors of forgeries, theft and murder. Carnage of the Realm. New York, Harper & Row, 1979 Sequel to Dewey Decimated a George Edwin mystery. A numismatic murder mystery, and the rich history of coinage, archaeology, counterfeiting, both ancient and modern, and the monetary schemes of tyrants. The Best Cellar. New York, St. Martin's, 1987 A scholarly murder involving rare books, Thomas Jefferson and the Werner Bok Library. A Slip of the Tong. New York, St. Martin's, 1992 When staff members in the Asian reading room of the Werner-Bok Library are killed one by one, Crighton Jones enlists her mentor, Edward George, and her old flame, Steve Carson, to help her pursue the murderer. Series character: Retired librarian Edward George. Series location: the Werner Bok Library in Washington, D.C., a combined version of the Library of Congress and Folger
Goodspeed, Edgar J. The Curse in the Colophon. New York, Willett, Clark, 1935 A manuscript appears to be causing death to its possessors, in this only mystery novel written by one of America's foremost mid-20th C. Christian authors and an expert in ancient manuscripts.
Gordon, Alison. Dead Pull Hitter. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1988 Full-time sports writer and sleuth by happenstance, Katherine 'Kate' Henry, must discover why someone has used the skull of the Titan's designated hitter for batting practice. Safe at Home. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1990 Kate Henry, just back from covering the Titan's spring practice is about to break a story that will throw the team, and the sport of baseball, into turmoil. At the same time her lover, Staff Sgt. Andy Munro is on the trail of a serial killer whose specialty is young boys, and it is just like her to become dangerously involved in the case. Night Game. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992 During Florida spring training, Titan's sports writer Kate Henry must find the real killer of a beautiful young reporter who gets her sports scoops via the bedroom, and whose murder is pinned on the team's most promising young rookie. Prairie Hardball. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1997 Kate is planning to attend the reunion of the Racine Bells of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, for whom her mother had played in the 1940s. But anonymous letters have been received by her mother's teammates warning them to stay away. It becomes more sinister when one of the Bells is found murdered. Series characters: Katherine 'Kate' Henry, baseball writer for the Titans and her lover, Police Detective Andy Munro.
Gordon, Neil. The Shakespeare Murders. New York, Holt, 1933 Shakespeare quotations lead to solving a murder
Gosling, Paula. Hoodwink. London, Macmillan, 1988. 1st US, New York, Doubleday, 1988 An author murdered and an editor mugged to get the dead man's manuscript. Lt. Jake Chase in "a merry-go-round of murder, mobsters & humor." The Body in Blackwater Bay. New York, Mysterious Press, 1992. Series characters: Stryker & Trevorne
Gottlieb, Samuel Hirsh. Overbooked in Arizona. Scottsdale, Camelback, 1984 Bookseller Gottlieb's novella depicts the zany experiences of a tenacious bookdealer. It is a brief and instructive tale on the perils of over zealous book collecting, a.k.a. bibliomania.
Grace, C.L. (Pseud of P.C. Doherty) The Book of Shadows. NY, St. Martin's, 1996. 4th Kathryn Swinbrooke, medieval physician. The Magus Tenebrae is murdered but his book of spells and secrets about the living and the dead still exerts its power.
Graeme, Bruce. Epilogue. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1934 Although Dickens died before finishing Edwin Drood, and Graeme solves 'The Mystery' by imagining the result after investigation by a modern Scotland Yard detective. Cardyce For the Defence. London, Hutchinson, 1936 Seven Clues in Search of a Crime. London, Hutchinson, 1941 A House with Crooked Walls. London, Hutchinson, 1942 A Case for Solomon. London, Hutchinson, 1943 Ten Trails to Tyburn. London, Hutchinson, 1944 Work for the Hangman. London, Hutchinson, 1944 A Case of Books. London, Hutchinson, 1946 And a Bottle o' Rum. London, Hutchinson, 1949 Dead Pigs at Hungry Farm. London, Hutchinson, 1951 The Undetective. New York, London House & Maxwell, 1963 Protagonist, Theodore Terhune, is a bookseller detective and amateur sleuth
Grafton, Sue. G is for Gumshoe. New York, Fawcett Crest, 1990 Clues are found in the public library and country records. Winner of the Anthony and Shamus awards, 1991
Graham, Caroline. Written In Blood. New York, William Morrow 1995 Chief Inspector Barnaby investigates murder among the Midsomer Worthy's Writing Circle.
Granger, Ann. Say it with Poison. London, Headline, 1991; 1st U.S. New York, St. Martin's, 1991 Meredith Mitchell hadn't expected her actress cousin's wedding to include murder; a librarian has minor part in providing clue A Touch of Mortality. London, Headline, 1996; 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin's, 1997 Why are "distraught librarians descending on the Bamford police station"? Series characters: Foreign-office official Meredith Mitchell and Chief Inspector Markby
Granger, Bill. Hemingway's Notebook. NY, Crown Publishers, 1986. November Man series. The CIA, the Mafia, even Castro would go to any lengths to keep the information in Hemingway's encoded notebook a secret.
Grant, C.L.. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1977 A librarian stars in the first book of the Oxrun Station series
Gray, Malcolm. (Pseudonym of British mystery author Ian Stuart) Matter of Record. New York, Doubleday, 1987 Murder aboard Orient Express, librarian is among the passengers. Series character: P.I., Alan Craig
Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story. New York, Putnam, 1878.; London, Victor Gollancz, 1928 ; New York, Dover, 1981 Man murdered in his library
Green, William M. The Salisbury Manuscript. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973 Casey Ford, a successful New York editor, receives a half-finished manuscript upon the death of her ex-husband. The manuscript suggests that he may have be murdered.
Greenbaum, Leonard. Out of Shape. New York, Harper & Row, 1969; 1st U.K., London, Gollancz, 1970 Professor's death linked to library research. First novel by Greenbaum, a University of Michigan administrator.
Greenleaf, Stephen. Book Case. New York, Bantam, 1991 Involves a manuscript and research in a law library. Features John Marshall Tanner, private eye. Winn Award nominee.
Grierson, Edward. A Crime of One's Own. London, Chatto & Windus, 1967; 1st US, New York, G. P. Putnam, 1967 As proprietor of a charmingly old-fashioned library and bookshop, Donald Maitland was convinced that all the adventure and romance in his life existed between the covers of the surrounding books--until he began noticing mysterious occurrences in the shop.
Grimes, Martha. Jerusalem Inn. Boston, Little, Brown, 1984 Inspector Richard Jury and Melrose Plant and murder for Christmas in a gothic manor. The Old Contemptibles. New York, Ballantine, 1991 Amateur sleuth poses as librarian to investigate murder
Gruber, Frank. Kiss the Boss Goodbye. New York, Mercury, 1930 Involves an editor, a publisher, adultery, and the magazine business. Series: Johnny Fletcher, book salesman & sidekick, Sam Cragg The French Key Mystery. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940 A man is locked out of his NY hotel room via an ingenious device called a French key,only to find a dead body when he is able to slip inside. Involves numismatics. The Laughing Fox. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940 Only three people were having a lousy time at the fur auction: Johnny Fletcher, Sam Cragg, and the guy with his throat torn open lying on the bathroom floor. Hungry Dog. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. Also released as Die Like a Dog. Gift Horse. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942 The Mighty Blockhead. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. Also released as The Corpse Moved Upstairs. New York, Rinehart, 1945 Sam Cragg and Johnny Fletcher put on their "book-selling act" at a cocktail party for the assembled publishers and artists of Blockhead, (a comic book of Superman proportion), and Fletcher becomes involved with "a corpse he couldn't lose and a million dollars he couldn't find." The Silver Tombstone. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1945 Series characters: Johnny Fletcher and sidekick Sam Cragg. Honest Dealer. New York, Rinehart & Co, 1947 Murder, blonde and cop trouble confront book salesman Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg in this gambling yarn, one of the first mysteries with a Las Vegas setting. The Gamecock Murders. New York, Rinehart, 1948 Also released as The Scarlet Feather. Series character: Johnny Fletcher Murder '97. New York, Rinehart, 1948 The Leather Duke. New York, Rinehart, 1949 Series character: Johnny Fletcher Limping Goose. Also released as Murder One Bantam (paperback) 1956 Johnny Fletcher The Navy Colt. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941 Book salesman Johnny Fletcher and sidekick Sam Cragg mix it up with gun fanciers, literary ladies, schools for scenario writers, blackmailers, plug-uglies and, ad infinitum, cheap hotel proprietors. The Whispering Master. New York, Rinehart & Co, 1947 Fletcher & Cragg involved with hotels, pawnshops, check-kiting, phonograph records and bonding companies, and murder. Swing Low, Swing Dead. New York, Belmont, 1964 "A crap game got Johnny into the music business. Two murders made him a detective." Simon Lash, Private Detective. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941 Gruber introduces detective Simon Lash, who is also a bibliophile with a library of rare Americana. Filmed by Pathe in 1946 as 'Accomplice' with screenplay co-written by Gruber. The Buffalo Box. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942 A murder mystery involving descendants of the Donner-Reed party. The plot partially revolves around a copy of Lansford Hasting's The Emigrant Route to Oregon and California. Series character, Simon Lash, solves rare book mysteries
Grudin, Robert. Book. New York,. Random House, 1992. An "Hilarious academic caper". Professor Adam Snell at the University of Washington & his obscure & brilliant novel, "Savrana Sostrata", disappear.
Guild, Nicholas. The Favour. London, Robert Hale, 1981; US title: The Favor. New York, St. Martin's, 1981 Spy tries to rescue a bookstore clerk
Guntrum, Robert R. The Great Twain Robbery. Write Way Publishing, 1994 Desperate Henry J. Nash, pursued by bill collectors, children in need of braces, and a union that wants him to strike, steals an original Mark Twain manuscript, and finds himself running from the FBI, the Army, two insurance agents, and one impassioned Twain lover.
Gur, Batya. Literary Murder. New York, Harper Collins, 1993; 1st ed. Hebrew, Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 1991 An admired poet, famed critic and professor of literature is murdered in the Hebrew University Library while almost simultaneously a younger member of the department dies in a scuba-diving accident. Series character: Michael Ohayon, newly promoted Superintendent of Jerusalem Police.
Guy, David. The Man Who Loved Dirty Books. New York, NAL Books, 1983. A mysterious death leads Ex-cop, Matt Gregg, on his first case as a private investigator into the sexual labyrinth of the porno underground.

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