Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)
by:
John Dunning (author)
Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is...
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Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway's wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop -- all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. But when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now, Janeway's life is about to start a precarious new chapter as he attempts to find out who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains. Includes information on John Dunning's new Cliff Janeway novel, The Bookman's Promise, coming soon in hardcover from Scribner
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743410656 (0743410653)
ASIN: 0743410653
Publish date: 2001-01-02
Publisher: Pocket Star
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Read my mini quickie review, part of the Bibliomystery Mania: For the Love of Books About Books blog post at From the Shadows.
Sometimes you read a book and you become fast friends with a character. I rather felt that way about this book's hero and narrator, Cliff Janeway, by the time I got halfway through the novel. I suppose that's because it's hard for me not to fall for a fellow bibliophile. The mystery involves the wor...
If I really wanted to know this much about bookselling and the calculation of prices of rare books I think I would have used another way to find out. This is a book where the author really did write about what he knew, and boy does he know a lot about bookselling.A bookscout is found dead and Detec...
"Booked to Die" is the first of John Dunning's excellent Cliff Janeway novels. I had read two of the more recent ones prior to this one, and can see the growth the author has made.In this book, Janeway is still a police officer and is drummed out of the force after a very unpleasant incident. He s...
A book noir. Fascinating look into the world of rare (or, let me qualify that) expensive books. I'm going to keep much better track of my hard cover first editions after this.