Librarian sleuths
Feb. 20th, 2006 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oursinFurther to my sceptical citing of claim in review in Sunday's Observer that a new mystery includes what 'may well be literature's first librarian-detective':
Elizabeth Peters' Jacqueline Kirby
Librarians in fiction mentions that
And there is a series by Judith van Gieson featuring Claire Reynier, a curator of Special Collections at a university library.
Any more contenders?
Elizabeth Peters' Jacqueline Kirby
Librarians in fiction mentions that
Librarians feature as detective protagonists in Charlaine Harris' Aurora Teagarden series, in Martha Grimes Old Contemptibles (1991), as they do in over a third of the works in this list. No mention of librarians as detectives would be complete without reference to Charles Goodrum's mysteries, featuring chief librarian Betty Crighton Jones and the crime teams she assembles from among the staff of her academic library. Goodrum's classic Dewey Decimated (1977), is complemented by titles like Best Cellar, The Subject Was Murder, and A Slip of the Tong (1992)...
And there is a series by Judith van Gieson featuring Claire Reynier, a curator of Special Collections at a university library.
Any more contenders?
