Hall, James W. Hard Aground (New York: Delacorte, 1993) 360 p.

The Coconut Grove Library in Miami plays a small but key role in this buried treasure adventure. Harry Wellborn, the reference librarian is "a man with hunched shoulders and red-tinted glasses .... He wore a red-and-green checked shirt, tan pants stained with ink and food." In response to a request for material "the man turned and went behind the counter and through a door, slogging along like he was wearing an airtank and flippers." (p. 252). Later Harry helps the protagonist push over a stack of shelving which topples domino fashion eleven more, trapping one of the bad guys. The bad guys get away, though, and steal a bookmobile as their getaway vehicle.