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 Bound for Murder
A BLUE RIDGE LIBRARY
MYSTERY

Victoria Gilbert
Dedicated, with thanks, to all librarians,
archivists, and library assistants
everywhere.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
—Jorge Luis Borges
 Acknowledgments

As always, I offer flowers and rainbows to:

My “groovy” agent, Frances Black of Literary Counsel.
My “fab” editor, Faith Black Ross, and everyone at Crooked
Lane Books, especially Matt Martz, Jenny Chen, Chelsey
Emmelhainz, Rachel Keith, and Ashley Di Dio. You guys are “totally
boss.”
Lindsey Duga and Richard Taylor Pearson, my “ultra-cool”
critique partners.
My husband, Kevin Weavil. “The Force” is definitely with this guy
(and so am I).
My “primo” family and friends.
All my readers, with deep appreciation for your continued
support of this series. I’m so glad you “dig it”!
 Chapter One

There are two times in a woman’s life when complete strangers think
it’s appropriate to offer unsolicited advice—when she’s obviously
pregnant, and when they discover she’s planning a wedding.
“I’m telling you, Amy, don’t make the mistake my grandniece did
and spend a fortune on one of those fancy cakes dripping with
inedible geegaws.” My eighty-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Dinterman,
tapped the pitted wooden surface of the library circulation desk with
one ruby-painted fingernail. “I know that bakery over in Smithsburg
likes to show off their cakes like they’re sculptures or something, but
I sampled one at my grandniece’s wedding, and lord-a-mercy, it
tasted like sawdust.” Stepping back, the older woman patted her
hair, which was dyed blue-black as a raven’s wing. “You want a
delicious cake, you just ring up my cousin Arletta Shober. She
makes a divine vanilla cake with just a hint of almond. Looks pretty
too, if I must say so myself.”
“I’m sure,” I said, casting my gaze over her plump shoulder. A
tall, white-haired man browsing the art section of the book stacks
caught my eye. Help, I mouthed at him.
He raised his bushy eyebrows before strolling over to the desk.
“Hello, Mr. Kendrick, can I help you with something?” I asked,
silently adding please. Mrs. Dinterman, who was focused on the
image of Patrick Stewart on the READ poster behind me, ignored
Kurt as she continued to extol the merits of her cousin’s wedding
cakes.
“Yes, thank you, Ms. Webber,” Kurt Kendrick replied, loud
enough to cut through Mrs. Dinterman’s monologue. “I was looking
for something on Caravaggio. Would you have any books on that
artist?”
“I’m sure we have something,” I said, raising my voice to match
his volume. Making my excuses to Mrs. Dinterman, I followed Kurt to
the shelves. “Caravaggio?” I muttered as we walked. “Couldn’t you
think of something a little less obscure?”
Kurt shrugged. “I thought perhaps your rather loquacious patron
might recognize a more popular artist and wonder why I, an art
dealer and collector, needed help finding information on them.” He
glanced down at me, his blue eyes bright with amusement. “You did
want me to rescue you from that endless prattle about cakes, I
gather.”
“Yes, and thank you.” I ran my fingers across a row of book
spines. “Let’s see what we can find in this one,” I called out in a
voice loud enough to carry to the desk. Mrs. Dinterman, obviously
sensing that I might be stuck helping another patron for quite some
time, waved her hand in a cheery goodbye before turning and
bustling toward the exit.
“Everyone and their cousin has an opinion on weddings, it
seems,” Kurt observed as the main doors closed behind Mrs.
Dinterman. Stepping back to look me over, he tapped his broad
chest with one finger. “Except for me. I’ve never given such
celebrations much thought.”
“Me either,” I said, gazing up into his craggy face. Kurt dwarfed
me, but unlike when we’d first met, I no longer felt intimidated by his
commanding presence. Most of the time, anyway.
“You mean to tell me that you haven’t been planning your
wedding since you were but a wee bairn?” Kurt ran one hand
through his thick white hair. “What kind of woman are you, anyway?”
“The sensible kind.” My smile acknowledged the sarcasm lacing
his words. I studied his face, still handsome despite his seventy-two
years. “Why would I be worried about details at this point? Richard
and I only got engaged a few months ago.”
 “I certainly don’t blame you for being irritated by that sort of
unsolicited advice. You haven’t even set a date yet, have you?”
“I’m sure you’d know if we had,” I said dryly. Kurt ran an informal
network of spies who kept him informed on most activities in our
small town of Taylorsford, Virginia, among other locales. “I expect
your little birds would’ve tweeted something like that to you by now.”
“Indeed, they would have. Besides, I’m expecting a special
invitation. I am a friend of the family, after all. Both families, if it
comes to that.”
“Are you?” I wrinkled my nose at him. “Aunt Lydia might dispute
that claim.”
“I doubt it. We’ve put aside many of our differences over the past
year.”
“Then why haven’t I seen you at our house since back in May?
Your absence has been noted. Richard mentioned it just the other
day. I told him you’d probably been out of the country on one of your
art-buying trips, but I confess I’ve also wondered why you’ve become
such a ghost.”
Kurt stared at the row of books above my head. “It’s true, I’ve
been traveling a lot, but …” He cleared his throat. “There is another
reason. Most of those gatherings included a certain art expert who
asks rather probing, and often unwelcome, questions.”
“Ah, Hugh.” I pressed two fingers to my lips and considered my
sixty-six-year-old aunt’s significant other, Hugh Chen, for a moment.
“You’re not worried about him uncovering some shady dealings on
your part, are you? I mean, not that I suspect you of engaging in
such activities.”
Kurt’s lips curled, baring his large, white teeth. “I’m sure the
thought has never crossed your very inquisitive mind, but yes—I
prefer to keep some of my activities to myself. You know Hugh Chen
has confessed to a long-term interest in my dealings in art
acquisition and sales. So”—Kurt spread his hands wide —“I thought
discretion was the better part of … well, not valor, I suppose.”
 “Expediency?” I suggested, widening my eyes and fluttering my
lashes.
“Let’s say prudence.” Kurt shot me an amused smile. “And, just
so you know, those innocent doe eyes don’t quite work. That tactic
might work for your friend Sunny, but for you … not so much.”
I grimaced. “I’ve heard that before.”
“I’m sure.” Kurt glanced toward the circulation desk. “Where is
Ms. Fields, by the way? Off today?”
Sunshine Fields was the only other paid library staff member, as
well as my best friend. Although we typically covered the library
hours together, there were times when we traded off, especially
when our library volunteers were scheduled to work.
“No, but she told me she’d be in late. She had to run some
errands for her grandparents. Do you know Carol and P.J. Fields?”
Kurt looked away, although not before I noticed his lashes lower
to shadow his bright-blue eyes. “Of course, although we’re not
personally acquainted. But I’m aware that they run an organic farm
outside of town. My chef often buys fresh fruits and vegetables from
them. The farm has a picturesque name, as I recall.”
“Vista View. It’s been in P.J.’s family for generations and, unlike
most land around here, has been continually farmed. Sunny’s told
me the whole story—P.J. inherited it, along with enough money to
run the place, from his grandparents after his parents refused to
move back from the city. People in Taylorsford thought P.J. would sell
Vista View, since he was only eighteen at the time, but he surprised
everyone and decided to take it on and turn it into an organic farm,
although he and Carol also ran it as a commune for a few years back
in the early sixties.” I tipped my head and examined Kurt’s rugged
profile. “Were you still Paul Dassin’s foster son when Carol and P.J.
started up the commune? I think that was in 1962 or ’3. It was the
talk of the town, according to Aunt Lydia, so I bet you would’ve heard
something of it.”
“No, I left Paul’s house in the early sixties, right after I turned
eighteen, so I wasn’t in the area at that point.” Kurt took a deep
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“Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is

real drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to
point out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his
dramas, tragedy is implied in the character of the chief
personage, too much of the action is controlled by the persistent
malignity of another individual. Free from most of the tricks of
the playwright, Mr. Howard still relies too much on his villain.”
+ Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
+
−
“Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly,
simply, even severely, preserving always the distinction between
what is theatrical and what is dramatic.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–
3.)
“The work of Newman Howard which has but lately made its
way to us, though published first some years ago in England,
evinces a dramatic talent of a high order, but a talent not yet
wholly disciplined.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
−
v. 1. Kiartan the Icelander: a tragedy.
 The motif of the first part of the trilogy is the introduction of
Christianity into Iceland.

“In ‘Kiartan the Icelander’ his very care for local colour and
characteristic expression makes his meaning sometimes not easy
to follow. Possibly in the theatre this difficulty would disappear,
though we cannot help feeling that he has been so intent on
making his people tenth century Icelanders that they lose
something of their probability as men and women.”
+ Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
+
−
v. 2. Savonarola: a city’s tragedy.
A drama filled with the “forlorn anti-pagan hope of
Savonarola.” Its interest is centered in “the public career of the
Frate, the dramatic incident of the Trial by fire and the tragic
spectacle of the Execution.”

“Without any sacrifice of dramatic propriety he has so

arranged that you see not only people but their surroundings. As
a result, the play is full of the stir and colour of mediaeval Italy.
Indeed, though he has handled the central theme in a masterly
manner, what will delight most readers is the extraordinary sense
of atmosphere created by the minor characters.”
+ Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
+
−
“In ‘Savonarola,’ Mr. Howard’s more recent drama, the lack of
sharp definition in the plot and dialogue is much more apparent
than in ‘Kiartan,’ since all the rival factions and orders, civil and
religious, of that turbulent period are represented in the play and
by their machinations so involve the plot that it is difficult to
keep the various characters and their allegiance distinct.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w.
−
v. 3. Constantine the great: a tragedy.
7–18134.

The establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the

Roman empire furnishes the key-note of the third part of the
trilogy. “In this play Mr. Howard gets his background, his
atmosphere, mainly by a single figure; that of the little
degenerate Fabius. By an almost savage piece of irony, Fabius is
made the victim of the plot to murder Constantine. The state of
paganism at the period of the play is admirably indicated by the
priests of Demeter with their pitiful machinery for working an
apparition of the goddess Proserpine. Bombo is one of the best
clowns out of Shakespeare.” (Acad.)

“Mr. Howard reaches his highest level of workmanship in

‘Constantine the great.’ The chief characters stand out with
something of the objective reality of sculpture but with all the life
and movement of human beings. The dialog is reduced to its
bare essentials, and because no word is allowed for its own
sake, every word is not only significant but decorative, so that
the texture of the verse is as if woven of some precious metal.”
+ Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
+
−
“When we have put together all the poetical achievements of
this tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of
dramatic speech and structure and when we have
dispassionately weighed against these excellencies its defects,
we cannot hesitate to place it among all but the highest English
dramatic poetry.”
 + Ath. 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w.
+
−
“The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or
technique.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
−
“We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that
he is one of the very few living poets who stand in the great
tradition. It is a book which every lover of good poetry must read
and cherish.”
+ Spec. 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
+

* Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography. 2v. **$5.

Baker.
7–35640.

The volume “takes us once more to the familiar battlefields,

shows how campaigns were fought and won and lost, and
describes in detail the efforts of the government, after peace had
been restored, to relieve the emancipated but helpless slaves
whom the war had set at liberty.”—Outlook.

“He takes the reader delightfully into his confidence, and

writes with an astonishing recollection of detail. An
autobiography at once so full of incident and so free from
matters of small importance has rarely been produced.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ Dial. 43: 244. O. 16, ’07. 1800w.
+
 “Bulks large on the shelf, but so interesting that the reader will
not regret the magnitude.”
+ Outlook. 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 410w.

* Howden, J. R. Boys’ book of locomotives. $2.

McClure.
An informing book for young readers which traces with many
accompanying illustrations the evolution of the steam engine
from its beginning to its replacement by the electric locomotive.

“The book will tempt old as well as young.”

+ Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 50w.

+ R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 90w.

Howe, Frederic Clemson. British city: the

beginnings of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–21305.

A companion to Mr. Howe’s study of the American city. It is not

only an exposition full of historical and statistical detail but is a
critical discussion of the workings of the British city and of the
lessons contained “for the solution of parallel, but by no means
identical, American problems.” The author’s strictly economic
point of view accounts for all the motives of a commonwealth’s
interests, he has become “convinced that it is the economic
environment that creates and controls man’s activities as well as
his attitude of mind.”
 A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 166. O. ’07.
“No social reformer can afford to be without this volume.” B.
O. Flower.
+ Arena. 38: 200. Ag. ’07. 3260w.
+
+
“The book contains a good deal of information, not all of it full
or pertinent, but it is not presented with especial attractiveness
or force.”
− Educ. R. 34: 430. N. ’07. 70w.
+
“In spite of these numerous mistakes and misconceptions, Mr.
Howe has formed some very sound and well-grounded opinions
as to the working of British institutions.”
+ Ind. 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 420w.
−

J. Pol. Econ. 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 210w.

“Mr. Howe never lets himself forget that he is writing for
American readers and the contrast which he draws between
municipal conditions in the two countries is really the book’s
most valuable and illuminating feature.”
+ Nation. 85: 81. Jl. 25, ’07. 1220w.
−

N. Y. Times. 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 547. S. 14, ’07. 530w.

Howe, Frederic Clemson. City: the hope of

democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
 5–33225.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
Charities. 17: 511. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
“For our part, we believe that in his main principles the author
is right, as also in many of his applications of those principles to
judge the success or failure of the British city. We also believe
that he carries some of his theories too far.”
+ Engin. N. 58: 533. N. 14, ’07. 1240w.
+
−
“Writes as a propagandist rather than as a student. The work
is interesting in style, stimulating in thought and treatment,
hopeful in tone, and is well worth a careful reading by the
student of municipal affairs.” Clinton Rogers Woodruff.
+ Yale R. 15: 463. F. ’07. 710w.
−

Howe, Frederic Clemson. Confessions of a

monopolist. *$1. Public pub.
6–32427.

An autobiography “showing how easily a man of medium

capacity and no scruples can accumulate a fortune by exploiting
public franchises and ‘playing Wall street.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Never
before has a work appeared in which the methods of the high
financiers and political bosses have been more clearly exposed.
Here the reader is made to see how certain feats that appear
from before the footlights as little short of miraculous are
performed. Here he sees how by learning the rules of the game
a modern high financier is able to divert the wealth of thousands
into the till of the crafty monopolists; how, in short, the
 thousands are made to labor for the few just as actually as in
the days of the feudal lords the serfs slaved for the barons. And
here he sees how politics are made the handmaid of the modern
plutocracy in its attempt to enslave labor while destroying the
soul of democracy.” (Arena.)

“It is far and away the finest political satire on present-day

American politics,—a book that every thinking patriotic citizen
should read.”
+ Arena. 36: 680. D. ’06. 950w.
+
“It is not pleasant reading—it is too true to life, though
possibly somewhat exaggerated or unnaturally concentrated
either for artistic effect or for the sake of argument.” Max West.
+ Dial. 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 310w.
−

J. Pol. Econ. 15: 125. F. ’07. 120w.

“The little volume is both interesting and instructive, whether
regarded as a vade mecum for those desirous of practising the
new high finance, or as an addition to the horrors which our
professional purifiers have revealed in order to reform them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 240w.
−

Howe, Malverd Abijah. Symmetrical masonry

arches, including natural stone, plain concrete and
reinforced concrete arches; for the use of
technical schools, engineers and computers in
designing arches according to the elastic theory.
$2.50. Wiley.
 6–33609.

“In the first chapter, fundamental formulas for the elastic arch
are derived; in the second chapter, symmetrical arches without
hinges and of constant or variable section, are considered.... In
chapter 3 the author applies the theory in detail to a segmental
circular arch of constant section and also to a reinforced-
concrete arch.... The last chapter of the book is devoted to
drawings of typical arches. An appendix is given on the physical
properties of stone and concrete and data for about five hundred
masonry arch bridges.”—Engin. N.

“The book is a strong, sound handling of a difficult subject.

The one criticism that can be made of the theory developments
in the book is that they are a little too condensed.” Wm. Cain.
+ Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 980w.
+
−

Howe, Samuel Gridley. Letters and journals of

Samuel Gridley Howe; ed. by his daughter, Laura
E. Richards; with notes and a preface by F. B.
Sanborn. 3v. ea. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.

v. 1. Following a brief story of his early years, Mrs. Richards

has sketched her father’s life from his letters and journals written
in Greece during his espousal of that country’s fight for
independence. “The book gives a convincing picture of the
conditions of Greece at the time of the war of independence, and
introduces us to an American working among these conditions
who was a credit to his country for firmness of character,
coolness of judgment, disinterestedness, and humanity.”
(Nation.)

“Full of facts and judgments of high historical value. There was

hardly a keener eye on Greek affairs than Howe’s; hardly a man
of any age who saw so much and interpreted it so well. His
incisive judgments of men have, in the main, stood the test of
time. Apart from the historical value of this volume, it takes rank
with the very best Greek travels of that day.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 640. Ap. ’07. 1040w. (Review of v. 1.)
+
“If they are to be regarded as historical materials, they require
much more annotation to make them generally comprehensible.
Their omissions are too serious to give them much weight as a
contemporary record of events.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 189. F. 16. 2090w. (Review of v. 1.)
−
“Mrs. Richards’s prefatory and interspersed notes add no little
to the value and completeness of the book as a detailed account
of her father’s eventful young manhood.”
+ Dial. 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The letters and journals are written in a spirited fashion, but
are lacking in notable incident, and deal with few personalities
who are of interest to any except special students of this period
of European history.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is readable throughout.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 51. F. 15, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mrs. Richards would probably be well advised were she to use
the pruning knife more freely in succeeding volumes. There is no
index, and the printing and production of the book leave much to
be desired.”
 + Nation. 84: 248. Mr. 14, ’07. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
−

+ R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ Sat. R. 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This is an interesting volume, but the reader need not
consider himself bound to go thru it from cover to cover.”
+ Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

Howell, George. Labour legislation, labour

movements, and labour leaders. 2d ed. 2v.
*$2.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a work which serves to throw light on the
nature, aims and methods of trade-unionism.

Ind. 60: 1287. My. 31, ’06. 50w.

“He chronicles a great deal not to be found in other histories,
and his book fills a gap for England which needs filling for
ourselves.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.
“It is marred by fragmentariness, by repetitions, and by
unpolished style, but its merits are so conspicuous that it
deserves the thoughtful consideration of every student of
economic and social questions.”
+ Outlook. 84: 675. N. 17, ’06. 580w.
−

Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 70w.

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