Books, Bookstores and Libraries That Are Out to Get You

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Do you know that there is a certain sub-genre (sub-sub-genre?) of murder mysteries concerned with the world of authors, manuscripts, rare and deadly books - with the emphasis on deadly books?. Typically, they feature an indefatigable hero leaping around libraries in a race against time, unearthing cyphers, ancient manuscripts and clues hidden in old books.

Thrillers like this belong to a popular sub-genre called bibliomysteries, and as the name suggests, they all concern some sort of bookish skull-duggery.

Click here to see book covers of the following titles.

The Book With The Iron Clasps by Angus B. Reach in 1848
The Book of Death (The Sexton Blake Library series)
The Locked Book by Frank L. Packard
The Closed Book by William LeQueux
Murder of a Novelist by Sally Wood
The Murder of a Mystery Writer by John Hawk
Death Stops the Manuscript by Richard M. Baker
The Fatal Manuscript! (The Sexton Blake Library series)
The Title is Murder by Hugh L. Nelson
The Body on Page One by Delano Ames
Murder in a Library by Charles J. Dutton
Death Walks in Marble Halls by Lawrence G. Blochman
The Library of Death by Ronald S.L. Harding
Dewey Death by Charity Blackstock
Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells
The Bookshop Mystery by James Saxon Childers
A Book for Banning by Nat Easton
Forbidden Book by Anne Marsh
Murder-First Edition by Truman Garrett
The Gutenberg Murders by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning
Murders in Volume 2 by Elizabeth Daly
The Mystery of the Human Bookcase by William Morton
Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer