On his night shift, Sergeant Wigan helps a staggering drunk get home. Seems Michael Fisk, a rare book seller, has made an amazing find, which has now been sold celebrated.. And so begins a new friendship. Turns out, the rare book market, and those who work it, are, well, less than nice! It can be a vicious, cutthroat business, which comes home to Wigan when his new friend is found murdered. When he believes the police have arrested the wrong man, he starts working the case on his own. Filled with interesting characters and plot twists, this was a good read! Death of a Bookseller, by Bernard J. Farmer, was first published in 1956.

Vera Wong, a woman of a certain age, lives alone above her little tea shop. There's not much business anymore, her husband has died, and her son is an adult with his own life. Things are quiet (dull). That will change when a body is found in her shop one morning. She is sure the police need her help and the story of her investigation and the people she meets (and the friends she makes) plays out in Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jess Q. Sutanto.

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