I came across this kind of dry article on librarians in
fiction, with some discussion of detective fiction:
The home page is Cool Librarians, http://valinor.ca/waycool.html.
There are write-ups on a variety of fictional librarians: one
who's a werewolf, one who's involved with a hardboiled
detective, etc.
Also, I hadn't really classified him as a collector, but Jack
Taylor in Ken Bruen's series is. I just read The Magdalen
Martyrs, in which Jack's books are destroyed and he starts
his personal library over. His adventures do not involve
chasing books, far from it, but he is constantly referring to
books and authors, quoting big chunks or one-liners.
Definitely noir and hardboiled, IMHO.
Karin
At 02:36 PM 24/04/2007 +0000, "Willow Arune"
pangarun@telus.net wrote:
>As a book collector, I really get a kick out of the
five Janeway titles by John Dunning. John has a rather
negative opinion of signed first editions, which comes out in
"Sign of the Book". Also as a result, he signs (or did,
before his stroke) just about every book! One collector
quipped that it was getting difficult to find a first edition
that John had not signed, so the unsigned books should have a
higher value.
>
>And there is Bernie Rhodenbarr, the burglar of
Lawrence Block.
>
>There seem to be a number of other book dealers who
are part time detectives, but having samples some I had to
pass.
>
>Are there any other book dealer detectives out there?
Librarians?
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