Bibliograph

Rides a stranger, David Bell

Type

Label

Rides a stranger, David Bell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rides a stranger

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

862039076

Responsibility statement

David Bell

Series statement

Bibliomysteries, 13

Summary

After the death of his father, a literature professor is drawn into the murder investigation of a bookstore proprietorThough Don and his father both love books, their tastes couldn?t be more different. Don is a scholar, and his father reads nothing but schlock. His house is full of dime paperbacks, battered thrillers, and case after case of western novels, none of which his son could ever bear to read. ?At his father?s funeral, Don is approached by a strange man, a rare book dealer named Lou Caledonia. Don assumes the man wants to buy his dad?s old westerns, but Lou explains that something far more important is on the line.?Don finds the cramped confines of Lou?s used bookstore immensely comforting, but a surprise waits for him downstairs. Caledonia has been shot dead, and Don is in danger, too. The boy who was too smart to read pulp fiction is about to find himself trapped in a thriller of his own

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor