The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery
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About the Author
IAN SANSOM is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Northern Ireland.
www.iansansom.net
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ALSO BY IAN SANSOM
The Book Stops Here
Mr. Dixon Disappears
The Case of the Missing Books
The Impartial Recorder
The Truth About Babies
The Enthusiast Almanack
The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry
Credits
Cover design by Milan Bozic
Cover photograph of book by 123foto/iStockphoto
Cover photograph of grass by Xsandra/Shutterstock Images
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
“Bookmobile,” courtesy of Joyce Sutphen, was previously published in Coming Back to the Body, 2000.
THE BAD BOOK AFFAIR. Copyright © 2010 by Ian Sansom. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-196604-0
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by Ian Sansom
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher