03836cam a2200433 i 4500 650752010 TxAuBib 20191123120000.0 190708s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019029067 9781250317926 hardcover 1250317924 hardcover (OCoLC)1107843666 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda SSH rda DLC OCLCO ILC LAKCL TxAuBib SSH OCLCO ILC LAKCL TxAuBib rda Lehane, Cornelius, author. Murder off the page : a 42nd Street library mystery / Con Lehane. First edition. New York : Minotaur Books, 2019. viii, 323 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 42nd Street library mysteries, The ; 3 42nd Street library mysteries, The ; ; 3 "A Thomas Dunne book.". Sequel to: Murder in the manuscript room. "The third book in an amazing series that features crime à la library at America's most famous institution of higher reading. A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off on a murder investigation, one that he pursues reluctantly until a second murder upends the world as he knows it. The second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's-and the prime suspect is McNulty himself. As Ambler pursues his investigation, he discovers that the murdered woman had a double life. Her intermittent visits to the city-a whirlwind of reckless drinking and illicit liaisons with men she met in the cocktail lounges-had their counterpart in suburban Fairfield County Connecticut where, as Dr. Sandra Dean, she practiced dermatology and lived in a gated community with a doting husband and a young daughter. While Ambler looks into the past of Dr. Sandra Dean to understand the murder of Shannon Darling in the present, NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove investigates the men in Shannon Darling's life. She might have been murdered because she frustrated the wrong man. It could have been a jealous wife. In fact, any number of people might have murdered Shannon Darling. Or, as Ambler suspects, did someone murder Dr. Sandra Dean? Yet, no matter which way he turns, McNulty emerges as a suspect. Ambler's dilemma seems insurmountable: Should he keep searching for the truth behind the murders if the deeper he probes, the more evidence he finds that points to the morally rumpled bartender as a murderer?"-- Provided by publisher. A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth on a reluctant murder investigation. But the second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's-- and the prime suspect is McNulty himself. Ambler discovers that Shannon Darling made intermittent visits to the city-- a whirlwind of reckless drinking and illicit liaisons with men she met in the cocktail lounges. In suburban Fairfield County Connecticut, as Dr. Sandra Dean, she practiced dermatology and lived in a gated community with a doting husband and a young daughter. While Ambler and NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove investigate, they question: which persona was the intended victim? -- adapted from jacket. 20191123. Murder Investigation Fiction. Libraries Fiction. Librarians Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Fiction. The 42nd Street library mysteries ; 3. 42nd Street library mysteries, The ; ; 3. LAKCL