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Murder at the 42nd Street Library (Raymond Ambler, Bk 1)
Murder at the 42nd Street Library - Raymond Ambler, Bk 1 Author:Con Lehane Murder at the 42nd Street Library opens with a murder in a second floor office of the iconic, beaux-arts flagship of the New York Public Library. Ray Ambler, the curator of the library's crime fiction collection, joins forces with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove in hopes of bringing a murderer to justice. — In his search for th... more »e reasons behind the murder, Ambler uncovers hidden -- and profoundly disturbing -- relationships between visitors to the library. These include a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library's crime fiction collection, that writer's missing daughter, a New York society woman with a hidden past, and one of Ambler's colleagues at the world-famous library. Those shocking revelations lead inexorably to the tragic and violent events that follow. « less