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The curious case of a little old book — Part 2

The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book — Part 2, orig­i­nally uploaded by Thorsten Becker. Last year I related the story of an unusual find in a post titled “The curi­ous case of a lit­tle old book”. I’ve had pur­chased a copy of the Roycrofter’s edi­tion of Aucassin & Nico­lette which also, unex­pect­edly so,

The curious case of a little old book

Do you enjoy detec­tive sto­ries? Have you ever wanted to be a sleuth your­self? I can answer both ques­tions with “yes”. Grow­ing up I lis­tened to quite a lot of audio books, mostly Three Inves­ti­ga­tors, Famous Five and TKKG. And of course I would go out and play sleuth myself. This fas­ci­na­tion with find­ing things