OPEN AND CLOSED

Readers who have not yet sampled this quirky and entertaining series should be vehemently encouraged to do so with all haste.-<i>Booklist</i><p>The fourth DI Don Packham and DC Frank Mitchell mystery.<p>There's a body in the library.<br>The Bath Street public library in Cowden London that is. The borough council wants to close it as part of a rationalization package. So one autumn night militant library-lovers enter the building and begin unfurling their banners and bedrolls. The mood is full of hope and solidarity-at least until a garroted corpse is found sitting in the librarian's office.