Bibliomysteries Books L

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

Lachnit, Caroll.
Murder in Brief. New York, Berkley, 1995
Just as ex-cop Hannah Barlow begins to catch up with the youthful, competitive law students who seem so far ahead of her, she and her moot-court partner, Bradley Cogburn, are accused of plagiarism. Then, on the night before the hearing, Bradley is killed, and the evidence of Hannah's innocence seems to have gone along with him. Library is part of setting

Lacy, Peter.
The Limit. New York, Doubleday Crime Club, 1988

Protagonist is a bookseller

Lait, Robert.
Switched Out. London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1970
Psychological mystery set in Cambridge.

Lake, M.D.
Gift for Murder. New York, Avon Books, 1992 pb original
The discovery of Cameron Harris's body has stunned the university. But some members of The Tower Writer's Collective are more than relieved that the poison pen of the bestselling author has been silenced. They're all hiding something. Series character: Peggy O'Neill
Once Upon a Crime. New York, Avon, 1995
A respected Danish scholar visits a university and is bludgeoned in the library by his favorite sculpture, a bronze statuette of the Little Mermaid. Series character: Peggy O'Neill

Langton, Jane.
The Transcendental Murder. (Pbk. title:The Minuteman Murder ) New York, Harper & Row, 1964

Murder in Concord Public Library
Dark Nantucket Noon. New York, Harper, 1975

Includes scenes at whaling museum library
Emily Dickinson is Dead. New York, St Martins, 1984; First U.K., London, V. Gollancz, 1989

Librarian involved in murder
God in Concord. New York, Viking, 1992

Mentions Boston PL and Concord PL
The Face On The Wall. Penguin, 1999
Annie Swann, illustrator of children's books, begins to paint a mural of fairytales on a wall in her house, but a mysterious face keeps appearing on the wall.

Larsen, Gaylord.
Dorothy and Agatha. New York, Dutton, 1990
Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers join forces to solve a mystery.

Latimer, Jonathan.
Black is the Fashion for Dying. New York, Random House, 1959
When scriptwriter Richard Blake found the naked blonde on his driveway, to him she was only another piece of Hollywood nonsense to complicate his frantic last-minute revision of a movie script. Although no one ever saw her again she turned out to be a vital clue in a story about a murder that couldn't happen, but did.

Le Carre, John.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. London, Gollancz, 1963; 1st US, New York, Coward-McCann, 1964
The Russia House. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989; 1st US, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989

Bookselling used as a cover

Lee, Austin.
Miss Hogg and the Bronte Murders. London, Jonathan Cape, 1956
Miss Hogg investigates a murder in Hayworth, a moorland village made famous by the Brontë family. Manuscripts are involved including the lost one of a novel by Emily. Cambridge lecturer is suspect and engages Hogg to clear him.

Lemarchand, Elizabeth.
Step in the Dark. New York, Walker, 1976

The body of a murdered librarian is found in the Ramsden Athenaeum Library the morning after the library's centenary celebration

Le Queux, William.
The Closed Book. London. Methuen & Co., 1904.

An early locked room bibliomystery concerning a hidden message in an old book about Lucrezia Borgia's secret poison. Among other things, features a hunchback bookseller named Francesco.

Levon, Fred.
Much Ado About Murder. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1955

Murder of a mystery writer

Lewin, Michael Z.
Outside In. New York, Knopf, 1980

Mystery writer is killed

Lewis, Arthur H. (as Arthur C. Doyle).
Copper Beeches. New York, Copper Beeches.

A group of Sherlockians decide to have a "chase" in the old-fashioned mystery sense, with the winner to receive a rare collection of manuscripts.

Lewis, Roy Harley.
A Cracking of Spines. London, Robert Hale, 1980; 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981
Lewis' 1st mystery introduces Matthew Coll, an antiquarian book dealer and ex-military intelligence operative, who is asked. by the ABA to investigate a series of rare book thefts.
The Manuscript Murders. London. Robert Hale, 1981; 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1983
Pension For Death. London. Robert Hale. 1981

1st U.S., New York, St. Martin, 1983.
Matt Coll, ex-British agent and antiquarian bookseller acting as consultant to an investment fund.
Where Agents Fear to Tread. London, Robert Hale, 1984; 1st U.S, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984
Fourth bibliomystery, and first to feature librarian Henry Franlin, a mild, unlikely hero and the theft of rare Arabic manuscripts.
Miracles Take a Little Longer. New York, St. Martin's 1986
Death in Verona. London, Robert Hale, 1989; New York, St. Martin's 1989

Protagonist is Matthew Coll, a West Country bookseller

Limnelius, George.
The Manuscript Murder. Garden City, Doubleday, 1934

Clues to killer's identity lies in two manuscripts

Linscott, Gillian.
Unknown Hand. New York, St. Martin's, 1988

Book found in Oxford library leads to murder

Little, Bentley.
University. U.K. title: Night School. New York, Signet, 1995?

Lockridge, Frances and Richard.
Murder Within Murder. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1946

Unnatural death in the reading room of New York Public Library
Murder by the Book. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1963

Pam and Jerry North find murder involving a public library

Lockridge, Richard.
The Distant Clue. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1963

Murder of Van Brunt Library (Putnam NY) librarian

Lodge, David.
The British Museum is Falling Down. London, Secker, 1981
Small world. London, Secker & Warburg, 1984

Logan, Margaret.
The End Of An Altruist. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994
Appraisal of a collection of valuable books a becomes the basis for a frame-up in a murder case.

Lomax, W.J.
The Riddle of the Bookmark. London, Eveleigh, 1926

Plot revolves around mysterious book-mark, but delves into book selling and book auction

Long, Amelia.
The Corpse at the Quill Club. New York, Phoenix, 1940

Member of a writer's club is murdered
Death Looks Down. Chicago, Ziff-Davis, 1944

Murder of students studying E. A. Poe

Lorens, M.K.
Dreamland. New York, Doubleday, 1992

Murder among the Edgar nominees.

Lovell, Marc.
The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus. New York, Doubleday, 1988
Appleton Porter is sent to a book convention in Cannes to buy a manuscript that is purported to be an attack on Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lupoff, Richard A.
The Comic Book Killer. Martinez, CA, Offspring Press, 1988; New York, Bantam, 1989

Insurance investigator and theft of comic book collection

Lyons, Nan and Ivan.
Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe.
New York's leading food columnist and Chef Extraordinaire is flown to London to cook dessert at Buckingham Palace. By the end of the novel she is the only survivor among a select group of Achile van Golk's &endash; publisher of Lucullus, " the Vogue of food magazines," &endash; favorite continental chefs, each of whom is murdered a la his most famous dish.

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Lachnit, Caroll. Murder in Brief. New York, Berkley, 1995 Just as ex-cop Hannah Barlow begins to catch up with the youthful, competitive law students who seem so far ahead of her, she and her moot-court partner, Bradley Cogburn, are accused of plagiarism. Then, on the night before the hearing, Bradley is killed, and the evidence of Hannah's innocence seems to have gone along with him. Library is part of setting
Lacy, Peter. The Limit. New York, Doubleday Crime Club, 1988 Protagonist is a bookseller
Lait, Robert. Switched Out. London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1970 Psychological mystery set in Cambridge.
Lake, M.D. Gift for Murder. New York, Avon Books, 1992 pb original The discovery of Cameron Harris's body has stunned the university. But some members of The Tower Writer's Collective are more than relieved that the poison pen of the bestselling author has been silenced. They're all hiding something. Series character: Peggy O'Neill Once Upon a Crime. New York, Avon, 1995 A respected Danish scholar visits a university and is bludgeoned in the library by his favorite sculpture, a bronze statuette of the Little Mermaid. Series character: Peggy O'Neill
Langton, Jane. The Transcendental Murder. (Pbk. title:The Minuteman Murder ) New York, Harper & Row, 1964 Murder in Concord Public Library Dark Nantucket Noon. New York, Harper, 1975 Includes scenes at whaling museum library Emily Dickinson is Dead. New York, St Martins, 1984; First U.K., London, V. Gollancz, 1989 Librarian involved in murder God in Concord. New York, Viking, 1992 Mentions Boston PL and Concord PL The Face On The Wall. Penguin, 1999 Annie Swann, illustrator of children's books, begins to paint a mural of fairytales on a wall in her house, but a mysterious face keeps appearing on the wall.
Larsen, Gaylord. Dorothy and Agatha. New York, Dutton, 1990 Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers join forces to solve a mystery.
Latimer, Jonathan. Black is the Fashion for Dying. New York, Random House, 1959 When scriptwriter Richard Blake found the naked blonde on his driveway, to him she was only another piece of Hollywood nonsense to complicate his frantic last-minute revision of a movie script. Although no one ever saw her again she turned out to be a vital clue in a story about a murder that couldn't happen, but did.
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. London, Gollancz, 1963; 1st US, New York, Coward-McCann, 1964 The Russia House. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989; 1st US, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 Bookselling used as a cover
Lee, Austin. Miss Hogg and the Bronte Murders. London, Jonathan Cape, 1956 Miss Hogg investigates a murder in Hayworth, a moorland village made famous by the Brontë family. Manuscripts are involved including the lost one of a novel by Emily. Cambridge lecturer is suspect and engages Hogg to clear him.
Lemarchand, Elizabeth. Step in the Dark. New York, Walker, 1976 The body of a murdered librarian is found in the Ramsden Athenaeum Library the morning after the library's centenary celebration
Le Queux, William. The Closed Book. London. Methuen & Co., 1904. An early locked room bibliomystery concerning a hidden message in an old book about Lucrezia Borgia's secret poison. Among other things, features a hunchback bookseller named Francesco.
Levon, Fred. Much Ado About Murder. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1955 Murder of a mystery writer
Lewin, Michael Z. Outside In. New York, Knopf, 1980 Mystery writer is killed
Lewis, Arthur H. (as Arthur C. Doyle). Copper Beeches. New York, Copper Beeches. A group of Sherlockians decide to have a "chase" in the old-fashioned mystery sense, with the winner to receive a rare collection of manuscripts.
Lewis, Roy Harley. A Cracking of Spines. London, Robert Hale, 1980; 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981 Lewis' 1st mystery introduces Matthew Coll, an antiquarian book dealer and ex-military intelligence operative, who is asked. by the ABA to investigate a series of rare book thefts. The Manuscript Murders. London. Robert Hale, 1981; 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1983 Pension For Death. London. Robert Hale. 1981 1st U.S., New York, St. Martin, 1983. Matt Coll, ex-British agent and antiquarian bookseller acting as consultant to an investment fund. Where Agents Fear to Tread. London, Robert Hale, 1984; 1st U.S, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984 Fourth bibliomystery, and first to feature librarian Henry Franlin, a mild, unlikely hero and the theft of rare Arabic manuscripts. Miracles Take a Little Longer. New York, St. Martin's 1986 Death in Verona. London, Robert Hale, 1989; New York, St. Martin's 1989 Protagonist is Matthew Coll, a West Country bookseller
Limnelius, George. The Manuscript Murder. Garden City, Doubleday, 1934 Clues to killer's identity lies in two manuscripts
Linscott, Gillian. Unknown Hand. New York, St. Martin's, 1988 Book found in Oxford library leads to murder
Little, Bentley. University. U.K. title: Night School. New York, Signet, 1995?
Lockridge, Frances and Richard. Murder Within Murder. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1946 Unnatural death in the reading room of New York Public Library Murder by the Book. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1963 Pam and Jerry North find murder involving a public library
Lockridge, Richard. The Distant Clue. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1963 Murder of Van Brunt Library (Putnam NY) librarian
Lodge, David. The British Museum is Falling Down. London, Secker, 1981 Small world. London, Secker & Warburg, 1984
Logan, Margaret. The End Of An Altruist. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994 Appraisal of a collection of valuable books a becomes the basis for a frame-up in a murder case.
Lomax, W.J. The Riddle of the Bookmark. London, Eveleigh, 1926 Plot revolves around mysterious book-mark, but delves into book selling and book auction
Long, Amelia. The Corpse at the Quill Club. New York, Phoenix, 1940 Member of a writer's club is murdered Death Looks Down. Chicago, Ziff-Davis, 1944 Murder of students studying E. A. Poe
Lorens, M.K. Dreamland. New York, Doubleday, 1992 Murder among the Edgar nominees.
Lovell, Marc. The Spy Who Fell Off the Back of a Bus. New York, Doubleday, 1988 Appleton Porter is sent to a book convention in Cannes to buy a manuscript that is purported to be an attack on Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Lupoff, Richard A. The Comic Book Killer. Martinez, CA, Offspring Press, 1988; New York, Bantam, 1989 Insurance investigator and theft of comic book collection
Lyons, Nan and Ivan. Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe. New York's leading food columnist and Chef Extraordinaire is flown to London to cook dessert at Buckingham Palace. By the end of the novel she is the only survivor among a select group of Achile van Golk's &endash; publisher of Lucullus, " the Vogue of food magazines," &endash; favorite continental chefs, each of whom is murdered a la his most famous dish.