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Murder in the Manuscript Room
Con Lehane
42nd Street Library Mystery #2
Minotaur Books
December 2017
On Sale: November 21, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 1250069998
EAN: 9781250069993
Kindle: B072L67N8W
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The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library mystery
series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart,
compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at
least as interesting as the striking sleuthing. "Not to be missed.” —Megan Abbott "A story utterly relevant to the real-life horror story
unfolding in America’s immigration politics.”—Sara Paretsky
When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New
York City’s iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the
library’s curator of crime fiction, has a personal interest
in solving the crime. His quest to solve the murder is
complicated by personal entanglements involving his
friend—or perhaps more-than-friend—Adele Morgan. Not only
does Adele’s relationship with the young woman staffer who
was murdered get in the way of Ambler’s investigation, more
disturbing for him is Adele’s growing interest in a darkly
handsome Islamic scholar. Soon the Intelligence Division of the New York Police
Department takes over the case from NYPD homicide detective
Mike Cosgrove, Ambler’s friend and sometimes
partner-in-crime solving. Ambler suspects that the murder of
the young woman, who’d been working at the library under an
assumed name and the curious intervention of NYPD’s
intelligence division are connected. The trail of intrigue
leads to a seemingly unrelated murder in an upstate prison
and a long ago murder of a trade union reformer. No one else sees the connections Ambler is sure are
there—not an unusual state of affairs for Ambler. But with
the city’s law enforcement establishment determined to stop
his investigation, the inquisitive and intrepid librarian
faces challenges that may put his very life at risk.
42nd Street Library
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