#4 Murder at the 42nd street Library Con Lehane
Two books ago I read a book about a murder at a bookstore. I mentioned that unlike many here I do not have some deep love of bookstores but two of my top favorite books deeply revolve around them.
I also do not have a love of libraries that is except this particular one.
This building is one of my all time favorite spots. I cannot fully express how much this building means to me but for example two of my next books are about topics I learned about in this very building. This building and a few other like it was the internet before that existed and still has many secrets that have not made it to some site or another.
I am not sure if I would ever feel that any book does this building justice but have no problem saying this came up very short.
Jumbled narration and un-relatable characters as well as many referenced yet unexplained back stories that you never fully understand. I did enjoy some of the descriptions of the building itself , though a big part of the building in the book a non real Mystery collection room, which does not really seem to jive with most of the rooms that I have been inside at the library.
I have researched topics in a couple of the private rooms and it is exciting. There was dialog at some points about material that really hadn't been catalog, and that experiance was very similar to some stuff that I had looked through once.
There were other NY landmarks mentioned in the book, oddly enough I have a strong connection to a few of those as well, Though they felt more thrown in for effect then really used as part of the story. All in all to me this was more a murder of the 42nd street library then it was a murder at it
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