title: Death by the Book (A Thomas Dunne Book)
author:  Lenny Bartulin 
description: Bartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a long series. Susko's business is slow until he gets an odd request from a well-to-do businessman, Hammond Kasprowicz, who offers him $50 for every copy he can locate of the works of an obscure poet, Edward Kass. Needing the cash, Susko suppresses his curiosity about the motive behind his client's request. As he begins to track down copies of Kass's books, Susko is unable to avoid getting emotionally entangled with Kasprowicz's daughter, Annabelle. After a few dead bodies crop up, the bibliophile becomes the object of unwelcome suspicion by a shady cop who knows about Susko's unsavory background. While the story twists won't shock genre fans, most readers will find the smart-aleck amateur detective a winning lead character. <I>(Jan.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **Death by**  
   **the Book**
  
   **Death by**
  
   **the Book**
  
  LENNY BARTULIN
  
    
  
  MINOTAUR BOOKS
  
  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK  
  NEW YORK  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
  portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
  
    
  
  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
  
  An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
  
    
  
  DEATH BY THE BOOK. Copyright © 2008 by Lenny Bartulin. All rights reserved.
  Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s
  Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
  
    
  
  [www.thomasdunnebooks.com](http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com)  
  [www.minotaurbooks.com](http://www.minotaurbooks.com)
  
    
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
    
  
  Bartulin, Lenny.
  
  Death by the book / Lenny Bartulin. — 1st U.S. ed.
  
  p. cm. — (“A Thomas Dunne book.”)
  
  ISBN 978-0-312-55972-4
  
  1\. Booksellers and bookselling—Fict