The Bad Book Affair

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The Bad Book Affair
Ian Sansom

The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong – the duffle-coat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland.In The Bad Book Affair Israel finds himself on the verge of his thirtieth birthday and on the trail of a troubled missing teenager, the daughter of a local politician.Why has the young woman disappeared? Does it have something to do with Israel’s lending her A Clockwork Orange and Lady Chatterly’s Lover from the library’s special ‘Unshelved’ category? Will the young woman’s father run Israel out of town? How will Israel recover from his own break-up with his girlfriend, Gloria? And how exactly does a Jewish vegetarian celebrate his thirtieth birthday in Tumdrum? With a bacon scone?And will Israel and his irascible companion Ted ever agree about anything?

The Bad Book Affair

Ian Sansom

FOURTH ESTATE • London

For my correspondents,

with all due respect

Table of Contents

Cover (#u17317b7b-9ac1-54bd-b69a-a993713a5807)

Title Page (#uaa589111-b538-5f25-b93e-bc97f2f9c198)

Dedication (#ub6596cd0-a96d-51b8-854b-b632e3ea9c5f)

Chapter 1 (#ua351b60f-da1a-5825-a983-ce917928c89a)

Chapter 2 (#u43d09bed-5c96-5297-8505-76ca116e27c0)

Chapter 3 (#u62c7f187-44a8-5c65-8311-652cd5150216)

Chapter 4 (#u62102871-d8db-5327-bfda-75e4f49a15d5)

Chapter 5 (#ubbe2fcf0-400e-50cf-a392-c637d5f5c48b)

Chapter 6 (#udfa00116-ad48-5e48-ba23-b74270dd287d)

Chapter 7 (#ubb57863a-dd4d-5a21-b756-8f804570ad80)

Chapter 8 (#ud3d82446-3307-5fc4-b151-afb855963479)

Chapter 9 (#u819f978f-dc81-55ef-891a-594f336ab43b)

Chapter 10 (#ub0b297cf-ea50-5283-aaa6-be790bc3024a)

Chapter 11 (#u2428a3a4-38fc-5de9-827b-e99b3777fb62)

Chapter 12 (#u4a786cc5-6989-58a3-bacd-4f7ca935fae8)

Chapter 13 (#u785302c4-bfdc-5bca-9831-43029ac151fe)

Chapter 14 (#u89da5868-8bb8-5ec6-98f9-5802d6359c06)

Chapter 15 (#u87fa4579-7180-5da8-a496-c918a267621a)

Chapter 16 (#u54f6cc99-6bf7-5b95-8379-e495bca6890f)

Chapter 17 (#ud7f7186a-3898-5b39-8d9f-caa0e9e75e86)

Chapter 18 (#u74486e97-09ab-5ee0-8e20-060d2ae332be)

Chapter 19 (#u3e717061-2cfc-56d2-85b9-3dd5a25436ee)

Chapter 20 (#u279e36a6-82d0-5f5c-9441-e871aab7f701)

Chapter 21 (#ue21672e4-25cc-58a8-97de-b0dca195c077)

Chapter 22 (#u662637ba-9a65-5c06-8cb2-4ecd35527187)

Chapter 23 (#ubb340d9e-72f2-576d-bb17-7f250494b31e)

Acknowledgements (#u4c0a0946-fc99-5f12-9b8e-b293f289a4ee)

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Copyright (#ua33fe221-c4f2-54d3-8787-1508989ee365)

About the Publisher (#uefd04744-27a0-52d0-902c-9b57d62c55e9)