Sherlock Holmes was a fairly good detective. Although I always thought Dr. Watson was a bit of a fan-boy when he wrote up their cases together. Lots of gushing praise “Holmes is such a genius”. I preferred Hercule Poirot with his little grey cells and Harry Bosch with his jazz records and moody staring out across LA from his balcony.

Today I joined their exalted ranks. I’m not leaving the library and applying for a private investigator’s license or buying a trench coat and a deerstalker hat, but if I wanted to, I could.

What has been the longest running mystery in Castle Bailey Library? Maybe the puzzle of why Linda, who hates reading books, is our senior librarian. Yes, but that one is a great existential riddle of the ages. It exists merely to confound mere mortals like myself...

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