"Of crime fiction’s many subgenres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the 'bibliomystery.' These are stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books―stories that feature a book scout as a sleuth, for example, or that find a literary heir killing to preserve an estate. Perhaps because it deals with a subject that authors know well, this type of plot comes up throughout the history of the genre. This volume collects the finest...