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

Ocork, Shannon.
The Murder of Muriel Lake. New York, Worldwide, 1990
Murder in a library at a mystery writers' convention

O'Hara, Kenneth.
The Delta Knife. London, Victor Gollancz, 1976
Sean Pearse is a professional writer, his wife Laura a dilettante painter. After four years of seemingly happy marriage, she suddenly makes an unprovoked attack on him with a knife, inflicting a nasty wound, and then disappears.

O'Toole, G.J.A.
The Cosgrove Report. New York, Rawson, Wade, 1979
The novel opens when a recently discovered 19th century manuscript comes into the hands of modern-day P.I. Michael Croft. His assignment: to verify the historical accuracy of Pinkerton detective agent Nicholas Cosgrove's report revealing one of the most shocking cover-ups in American history &endash; the assassination Abraham Lincoln and the alleged capture and death of John Wilkes Booth.
Poor Richard's Game. New York, Delacorte, 1982
An historical mystery set in 1781 which explores whether Ben Franklin was a traitor to the colonies during the Revolutionary War. It starts with an 18th century manuscript.

Oursler, Fulton.
The Reader's Digest Murder Case. New York, Farrar, Straus, & Young, 1952
Death at the Reader's Digest

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