TEXT: TRAIL OF CTHULHU
  Bookhounds of London
  The City Rumours
  The former Satanist, explorer, and occult scholar Lord Northam lives in Gray’s Inn, a near-catatonic 
  invalid surrounded by only the most puerile of books and art. He screams when he hears the bells ring, 
  and merely titters when asked anything about his past. Where his great occult library and collection of 
  artifacts may be, nobody knows, but the Northam Collection is the El Dorado of grimoire scavengers 
  everywhere. Before his stroke in 1927, his only companion was his neighbour Algernon Williams, who 
  disappeared shortly thereafter while on holiday in Yorkshire.
  A Jewish bookseller in Clare Market sold a Latin Necronomicon (likely the 1623 Cadiz edition of 
  Wormius) for an absurdly low price in 1927. The tome vanished with its purchaser, Algernon Williams, in 
  Yorkshire later that year, but the bookshop can’t have simply disappeared, can it? Certainly, neither of the 
  two bookstores in the street seem like the kind of place such things would turn up. Rigorous examination 
  of tax records, city directories, and so forth may turn up where that shop was located, or where its stock 
  went.
  One hears that Nevil Carstairs, a broker at the Baltic House on St.-Mary-Axe, is the man to see about 
  importing valuable grimoires, books of Kabbalah, Masonic texts, and other officially banned books from 
  Nazi Germany, without the excessive scrutiny of customs officials. One also hears that he is the man to 
  see about exporting such works into Nazi Germany, where certain Party higher-ups express interest in 
  these matters.
  The eccentric book scout Allan Chessover (see p. 85) brings you a copy of the 1605 play A History of 
  Richard Whittington. Known only from printers’ license records, the play was long thought lost; this 
  quarto copy credits George Wilkins (according to some scholars, Shakespeare’s coauthor on Pericles) as 
  the playwright. If authentic, the play is worth quite a bit – but its “Dick Whittington” becomes wealthy and 
  powerful not through his faithful cat per se, but by use of a book he acquires from “the Queen of Cats” in “a 
  Citie in Syria.” It might be worth looking around the crypt of St. Michael Paternoster in College Hill (the 
  church Lord Mayor Whittington generously funded rebuilding of, and in which he was buried in 1423) to 
  see if that book – the Scrolls of Bubastis? – is hidden there.
  
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