Dirty Book Murder

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>In this clever and fast-paced mystery is an endearing hero immersed in the world of antique books.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Michael Bevan book merchant extraordinaire hopes to uncover hidden literary gold while at the Kansas City auction house. Though the ad mentioned rare erotica Michael is amazed when a first edition novel by an infamous French author comes up for bid. He knows this one item alone could fetch a small fortune in the right market.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Michael and fellow merchant Gareth Hughes warm up to battle for the book a stranger comes in and outbids them both-to the tune of sixty grand. Gareth bitter and unwilling to leave the auction house empty-handed steals two volumes including the French novel. When he is found dead the next day Michael becomes suspect number one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now Michael must find out who wanted the French book so badly that they would not only kill for it-but also frame him. Determined to stay out of police custody he follows the murderer's trail into the wealthiest echelons of the city-where corruption is around every corner and eroticism is perverted by pure evil. Unfortunately for Michael one dead book dealer is only the opening chapter in a terrifying tale of aristocracy and miscreants.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will Michael solve the mystery before they close the book on him...or will he prove his side of the story true?</em></p>