Title: Swann dives in
Description: The case starts simply, with a call to find a burglary suspect who's gone on the lam.  But the twists and turns take Swann right to the dizzying top of America's Ivory towers.  Swann is soon on the trail of a wealthy lawyer's rebellious daughter, who's disappeared along with her disreputable boyfriend.  Finding the beau--an intellectual and amoral trickster--leads him into the dangerous midst of cut-throat academics, sexy librarians, and killer book collectors, with a priceless first editin of Tender is the Night the surprising prize along the way.
Subjects: Private investigators, Fiction, detectives, noir, literary fiction, rare books, academia, professors.
Places: New York City, Boston, Syracuse, London.
Time periods: 2001