by John Dunning
This is a book in a series by John Dunning about a Rare Book Seller, Cliff Janeway, who gets involved in solving mysteries related to rare books.
In this, the third in a series, Janeway meets an old woman who has a copy of a book by Richard Francis Burton which is inscribed to a person she claims is her grandfather. She claims that her grandfather was a friend of Burton's and had many of his books, but that the collection was "stolen" from her family by unscrupulous booksellers. On her death bed she tells him he can have the book provided he promises to try to track down the other books that were in her father's collection.The old woman dies, another innocent woman is murdered as Cliff and a couple of female friends travel to Carolina to try to find proof of the old woman's claims.
The book was interesting but I found the part where the old woman is supposedly recalling her grandfather's narrative of his travels with Burton in Carolina, while under hypnosis, a bit long-winded.
Many characters get involved with Janeway and his partners, some are quite violent. Janeway disrupts several people's lives in his quest for the truth.
Bibliography
Bios
Fawn Brodie. The Devil Drives, 1967
Edward Rice. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1990
Mary S. Lovell. A Rage to Live,
Fiction
Illya Troyanov. Collector of Worlds, 2010
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