This book drew me with the title alone, but when I read the blurb and discovered that it was about finding and restoring rare books, a cross-century literary mystery, Shakespeare, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, I knew this one was for me. The protagonist is a young American man named Peter Byerly, an antiquarian bookseller with an obsessive attraction to rare books and an equally obsessive aversion to social interaction. Byerly has become a virtual recluse since the death of his beloved Amanda nine months earlier, […]