title: Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (Bibliomysteries)
author:  Otto Penzler 
description: The subtitle says it allexcept to note that contributors to this hefty anthology include some of the most admired contemporary writers of mysteries and thrillers.<br /> - <strong><em>Michael Dirda, The Washington Post</em></strong><br /><br />An anthology featuring short stories by the best of the best writers of mystery and suspense, including winners of the Edgar Award, <em>Bibliomysteries</em> edited by Otto Penzler deserves a place on every fans bookshelf.<br /> - <strong><em>New York Journal of Books</em></strong><br /><br />Superior. Fans of all mystery subgenres will find something to enjoy.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />Readers who love books will love reading about books, the people who love them, the people who kill for them, and the people who kill with themoften the very same people.<br /> - <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><br /><br />The tales feature books and bibliophiles, and the best of them is easily John Connollys The Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story. Hot on its heels in terms of quality is Thomas H. Cooks Whats in a Name? The remainder of the collection is almost universally enthralling. A must for mystery shelves.<br /> - <strong><em>Booklist</em></strong><br /><br />A welcome anthology for bibliophiles. It features 15 tales with an impressive rangeinternational thriller, whodunit, hardboiled, and contemporary Westernwith a single unifying theme: books and the people who love them. The quality of the tales is unusually high and it is, at least as of this writing, the best anthology Ive read all year.<br /> - <strong><em>Mystery Scene</em></strong><br /><br />This anthology presents a balance worth recognizing and a welcome addition to the library of any book lover, with our without bloodshed.<br /> - <strong><em>PopMatters</em></strong><br /><br />Otto Penzlers entertaining new anthology <em>Bibliomysteries</em> puts a book or booksor a bookstore or libraryat the heart of 15 engaging stories.<br /> - <strong><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</em></strong><br /><br />One of the best crime anthologies Ive encountered in a long, long time. <em>Bibliomysteries</em> is a two-fold celebration of what makes books great. Penzler has done it again with this one.<br /> - <strong><em>Tulsa Book Review</em></strong>
zlib_text: **SPRING FIRE**
  
   **By**
  
   **Vin Packer**
  
  Spring Fire
  
  By Vin Packer
  
  First published 1952.
  
  ISBN: 978-1-936456-12-3  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
   **INTRODUCTION**
  
  A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America—a paperback
  revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute
  books and how people would purchase and read them.
  
  In 1939 a new publishing company—Pocket Books—stormed onto the scene with the
  publication of its first paperbound book. These books were cheaply produced
  and sold in numbers never before seen, in large part due to a bold and
  innovative distribution model that soon after made Pocket Books available in
  drugstores, newsstands, bus and train stations, and cigar shops. The American
  public could not get enough of them,