POST SCRIPT

A brief PS to my last post:  another book read during my journal hiatus was John Dunning's The Sign of the Book.  I wrote about Dunning's books last year when I had read the third one in the Bookman series, and I haven't much to add after reading this one.  It was the weakest of the series, as Cliff Janeway, Our Hero, is out in the Colorado mountains scrambling around trying to figure out whodunit.  He is better when the mystery keeps him in Denver, in his antiquarian bookstore and there is more booklore.  The first two books, Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, were the best of the series.  Things are getting stretched a little thin now, it seems to me. 

Dunning himself used to have exactly such a bookstore in Denver, The Old Algonquin. He now has only a virtual bookstore, which can be visited here.