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Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime-solving adventure in this hilarious fourth novel in the Mobile Library series.
Israel Armstrong?the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland?finds himself on the brink of thirty. But any celebration, planned or otherwise, must be put on hold when a troubled teenager?the daughter of a local politician?mysteriously vanishes. Israel suspects the girl's disappearance has something to do with…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime-solving adventure in this hilarious fourth novel in the Mobile Library series.
Israel Armstrong?the hapless duffle coat wearing, navel-gazing librarian who solves crimes and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland?finds himself on the brink of thirty. But any celebration, planned or otherwise, must be put on hold when a troubled teenager?the daughter of a local politician?mysteriously vanishes. Israel suspects the girl's disappearance has something to do with his lending her American Pastoral from the library's special "Unshelved" category. Now he has to find the lost teen before he's run out of town?while he attempts to recover from his recent breakup with his girlfriend, Gloria, and tries to figure out where in Tumdrum a Jewish vegetarian might celebrate his thirtieth birthday.
Autorenporträt
Ian Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for The Guardian and The London Review of Books.