Aird, Catharine. The Stately Home Murder (New York: Bantam, 1980) 193 p. Originally published in Great Britain as The Complete Steel (London: McDonald, 1969)

Osborne Meredith is the Librarian to the Earl of Ornum. Meredith is a small, dapper man who keeps his books and manuscripts neat and orderly. Meredith is murdered in the library.