I'm trying to catch up, so these are going to be short.
It is difficult to be brief about one of the Bookman books. It is a shame that there are so few of them. It isn't that some of the writers of series which run to twenty or thirty volumes aren't good. Many of them are excellent - I keep reading them, don't I? But these are orders of magnitude above the usual.
Janeway came home from his last adventure with a goodly chunk of change - so he decided to buy a book. After all, the money was just "Indian Money," a term that a friend used to describe winnings from the casinos on the reservations.
After he returns home with his treasure, a mint first edition of a work by Richard Burton (the explorer, not the actor), an elderly lady comes to see him claiming that the book was part of her grandfather's collection which had been stolen (well, at least purchased fraudulently) from his widow. She extracts a promise from Janeway that he will find the collection. She dies before she can even return to South Carolina, but Janeway, being Janeway, feels bound to fulfill the commitment he made.
The background educational material is Burton - did he or did he not spy for the British in the days leading up to the Civil War.
The rest of these books are in my queue. It is going to take some restraint (and high class reading material) to resist reading them in straight sets, but I am determined to try. Anticipation ---
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