Brandon, Beatrice. The Court of Silver Shadows (New York: Doubleday, 1980) 305 p.

Sablecroft Hall, near Petersburg, Florida is the home of an eccentric family in possession of an enormous library on the subject of cinema. In need of a librarian to organize and catalog the collection, they hire Laurel Warrick, a recent MLS graduate from Connecticut. Laurel comes with her cat to live in the house with this strange family and catalog their books. "I, being a librarian, just love to grind," I said. "To drudge, to swot, to plunge myself into monotony, what glee!" (p. 100).