The Bookman's Promise
469 pages
|Published: 9 Mar 2004
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ISBN: 9780743476294
Format: Mass market paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Pocket Star
Publication date: 1 February 2005
Description
When former Denver homicide detective and rare books dealer Cliff Janeway investigates the provenance of a signed first edition of a memoir by legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Burton, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery involving a lost library of rare Burton material, two unorthodox booksellers, a vicious gangster, and murder. Reprint.