The Widening Stain

A Golden Age classic. In this "sparkling academic mystery," murders plague a university library—and only an intrepid book cataloger can solve them (Publishers Weekly).

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure...