Bonnamy, Francis. Dead Reckoning (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943) 248 p.

The Map Division of the Library of Congress is the scene of murder and a search for a pirate's treasure map. Miss Arabella Fly, aged forty-something, tries to attract the attention of single men as she does her work in the Map Division.

The familiar stacks in the cellar of the Library of Congress stood sinister in their dusty quiet. Horrors seemed to lurk behind each wall of books as she made her way toward the little circular iron stairway that led up two flights to the Map Division. The bare light bulbs gleamed far apart; each meager pool of light thinned at the edges to a dirty gray. Only her heel taps echoed in the silence. If anyone were waiting for her behind that farthest stack, he'd be all set with her heels beating a warning. Like belling a cat.

It was terribly lonely down here, really. That Mr. Rivers in the Semantics Division said once there were corners in this pile where a body could lie undisturbed for months. Her body, maybe. (p. 3-4).