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I enjoy good detective stories and spy novels, so for the past several years I have been prowling around the Rappahannock Library searching out books I might like to read. In the course of this prowling I have discovered a couple of things about the “upper level.”
It is not a dark, sinister place, though the shelves contain some good reading about dark and sinister places, plots and things. All of Ed McBain’s books about the 47th Precinct are there, along with Lawrence Sanders’ novels covering The First through The Fourth Deadly Sins. There’s “The Detective” by Roderick Thorp - a good book which hasn’t been checked out since 1979.
I hate to see enjoyable books “disappear" once they leave the “new” table. Yet that’s what has been happening. I have just finished reading “The Just and The Unjust" by James Gould Cozzens — a fine
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