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" The trouble is with the 'L'."
Clare Henry works with her grandfather, Chester, at The Rescued Word. The shop repairs old typewriters and restores old books. Clare discovers numbers and letters etched on the letter bars of an antique typewriter that belongs to a family friend. A stranger threatens Clare when she refuses to sell the typewriter. The following day he is found dead in the alley behind the shop.
This is an interesting first book. I really loved the information about book restoration. ...more
Clare Henry works with her grandfather, Chester, at The Rescued Word. The shop repairs old typewriters and restores old books. Clare discovers numbers and letters etched on the letter bars of an antique typewriter that belongs to a family friend. A stranger threatens Clare when she refuses to sell the typewriter. The following day he is found dead in the alley behind the shop.
This is an interesting first book. I really loved the information about book restoration. ...more
The story is set in UT and looks at silver mining and fixing typewriters and the start of new relationships. Clare is in business with her grandfather, running the shop fixing typewriters, books and selling paper for writing. Her niece works in the shop and works the front while Clare does the fixing. She fixes a book for a geologist who has moved to town and wants to save a book his father used to read to him while he was ill. When they meet that is the start. Jodi, the friend of Clare, who is
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An interesting start to a new series. I am interested in reading more about Clare and Star City. Not sure about the peripheral characters. I find the majority of them annoying and or uninteresting, but they may grow on me. I did find the explanation of the mystery very unsatisfying, I would have liked a better epilogue.
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