Capital Crimes #16
Fawcett
November 2001
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Featuring: Annabel Reed-Smith
320 pages ISBN: 0449001954 EAN: 9780449001950 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
In the depths of the U.S. Library of Congress toil thousands of researchers, chasing down obsessions, breakthroughs, and new contributions to human wisdom. But when amateur D.C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American institution, she discovers a hornetโs nest of intrigue and murder.
After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to death among the scholarly stacks, an ambitious TV reporter links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City. Annabel suspects that buried in the Library are secrets some people will do anything to keep silentโthe secret of a rich manโs ambition, a researcherโs disappearance, and a mysterious diary of Christopher Columbusโs journey written five hundred years ago. . . .