Book Sale Saturday
The Friends of the Library book sale opens at nine. By nine fifteen, someone has bought the wrong set of encyclopedias.
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The annual Friends of the Lake Street Library book sale is the most competitive morning of the year in St. Paul. Dealers line up at dawn with flashlights and folding carts. This year, Dot Engquist is running the cash box, and a quiet woman in a green hat pays fifty cents a volume for a 1972 set of encyclopedias that nobody has wanted for decades. By lunch, three different people have come back to ask for them. The fifth Lake Street Library mystery.
By seven in the morning there were forty-three people in line outside the Lake Street branch, and Dot counted eleven flashlights and six folding carts. The Friends of the Library book sale was the only event in St. Paul where retired schoolteachers elbowed each other for a first edition of a Minnesota cookbook. Dot had the cash box, a roll of quarters and a hand bell that the Friends rang at nine to open the doors and at three to announce that everything left was a dollar a bag. She rang it at n
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I spent thirty-eight years behind the reference desk of a branch library in St. Paul, and I can tell you that people will confess things to a librarian they would never tell a priest. They want a book on divorce, or poisons, or how long a body stays frozen in a lake, and they always say it is for a friend. My sleuth, Dot Engquist, is a retired reference librarian who still cannot walk past a misfiled book. I write on the couch by the front window, with a cup of coffee going cold and my husband Arne asking what is for supper. The answer is usually hotdish.
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