By Its Cover by Donna Leon 237 pp.
Commissario Guido Brunetti is on the hunt for a thief of rare books from a Venetian library. In spite of security procedures, someone has walked off with many, rare and high value volumes. Other books have been mutilated by having pages with important illustrations removed. There is a suspect but he has vanished and his identity is unknown. Then the brutal murder of a former priest who frequented the library leads Brunetti into the illegal trade in rare books. Brunetti and his usual assistants solve the crime but the book ends rather abruptly.
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