Photo: TED S. WARREN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPolice officer with two books in hand that were collected as evidence from a gruesome murder scene in Federal Way, Washington (20 minutes south of Seattle) in which 5 people were killed.One is a dictionary and the other a copy of a book, “Fight Back and Win: What to Do When You Feel Cheated or Wronged.”The incident started as a domestic dispute.Story in the Seattle Times.
Fighting Crime One Book at a Time
We are very pleased to welcome Nancy Mattoon to Book Patrol with this, her first post. Nancy will be walking the library beat, covering news, issues, and human interest stories from the stacks with her thirty years of experience and perspective as a librarian.As librarians are well aware, even in the book world no good deed goes unpunished. Getting the right book into the right hands seems innocent enough—until it isn’t. Headline hungry scribes sometimes seek to link books and crime; the permanent stain on “The Catcher in the Rye” after being found in the possession of both Mark David...