Austwick,
John. The
County Library Murders (London:
Robert Hale, 1962) 175 p.
An
assistant librarian at the Sluby County Library is young, beautiful
and popular.
Some
female librarians look as if they had started off as Anglican
deaconesses and realized their lack of vocation just in time. Miss
Pettigrew—Valerie or Val to her numerous friends—gave no
suggestion of the diaconate in the Anglican or any other church. She
suggested Persephone, if you were classically minded, or possibly
Iseult. Young men had been increasingly attracted to the library
since her joining the staff six months before, and by them she had
been variously described as “some dame”, a “dish”, “smashing”
and a “scorcher”. (p. 5).
Her
fellow assistant, Miss Boorman is more stereotypically librarianish.
The chief librarian is the eagle-eyed and persnickety Miss North.
Miss Pettigrew finds herself at the center of a mystery involving
book mutilation and murder.
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