The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the 'lost ladies' of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works …
I began blogging for Fine Books in late 2009. I remember agonizing over that first post, not yet acclimated to the kinds of content I should consider worthwhile for the Fine Books blog.
Few collectors are as passionate or as dogged in the pursuit of their quarry as collectors of rare books. In fact, book collecting is the only pastime that has a clinically diagnosable illness—…