Homicide in hardcover
By: Kate Carlisle
Series: A bibliophile mystery -- 1
Publisher: Obsidian
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780451226150
Subjects: Women detectives; Murder; Conservation and restoration; Fiction; Investigation; Brooklyn Wainwright (Fictitious character); Rare books; Books
Description: "Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer. On the eve of the celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abraham leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, 'Remember the devil, ' and smiles as she takes possession of his priceless, and supposedly cursed, copy of Goethe's Faust ..."--Page 4 of cover.