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1948 is a leap year and a good one for Harry S. Truman. The second-hand book dealers on Manhattan’s Fourth Avenue are in full swing. Howard inherits his father’s shabby bookshop, but Howard isn’t a true bookman, and he knows how little money there is in the business—until a seemingly priceless manuscript falls into his lap. But there’s something odd about it. Howard decides to check out his treasure with an acerbic fellow in Baltimore, a man Howard’s late father believed could solve all literary problems: H. L. Mencken. The results are deadly.
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Don Swaim's "Book Beat" was broadcast on major radio stations through the CBS Radio Stations News Service, and can be heard on the Internet at Wired for Books: wiredforbooks.org/index.html. After a career at CBS in New York and Baltimore, Swaim founded the Bucks County Writers Workshop. He edits the web's definitive Ambrose Bierce Site: donswaim.com/.
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There's a dusty-attic charm to Mr. Swaim's evocations ofbookshops past, and he couldn't have enticed a livelier ghost to Mencken tohaunt them. --The New York Times
The colorful cast, quotes from Mencken, evocations of the book stores and other treasures lost to progress add nostalgic appeal to Swaim's dandy mystery. --Publishers Weekly.
Swaim has a fine-tuned ear and eye for the language and lookof the street and the period. There's a bit too much of both here, though,along with feverish plotting and spindly motivation; but nostalgia fans,Mencken admirers, and book-lovers reminded of one-time pleasures and treasureswon't complain. An original and imaginative debut. --Kirkus Reviews
If you like whodunits, you will like The H.L. Mencken Murder Case. Even if you do not particularly care for them, but are only a Mencken buff, you will find it an entertaining piece of Mencken lore. --Menckeniana Quarterly Review
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- PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1504011171
- ISBN 13 9781504011174
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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