Mystery Mobile: The Case of the Missing Books
By Ian Sansom
Harper-Collins Publishers
Copy purchased by reviewer
ISBN: 0060822503
Review by James Mowery
The back copy on Ian Sansom’s “mystery” novel, “The Case of the Missing Books,” claims that its protagonist, Israel Armstrong, is “one of literature’s most unlikely detectives.” The sneer quotes here are intentional, though not meant to be especially sneering – consider, instead, that they may simply be telling.
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