Golden Age Bibliomysteries Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and the metaphysics of purity

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Golden Age Bibliomysteries Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and the metaphysics of purityOf crime fiction's many sub genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the bibliomystery stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett's A Volume of Poe, a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's The Adventure of the Three R's, the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library in Robert L. Blochman's Death Walks in Marble