Managing the Mystery Collection
Subtitle: From Creation to Consumption
Contributors: Judith Overmier (Editor); Rhonda Harris Taylor (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Information Press
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780789031549
Subjects: Acquisitions & collection development; Libraries; Fiction in libraries; Language Arts & Disciplines; Reference; Special collections; Language; Library & Information Science; Detective and mystery stories; Bibliography; Methodology
First sentence: In Danuta Reah's intelligent psychological thriller, Listen to the Shadows, a linguistic researcher finds comfort in a large university library, where she is trying to confirm a hunch that there is a link between language difficulties and violent behavior in young offenders: "She worked in the quiet of the stacks, the endless rows of shelves, the pools of light in the darkness restoring her equilibrium.