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From Publishers WeeklyThe theft from a private museum in Miami of a painting by 19th-century artist Fernando Reyes of Columbus offering his book of privileges to Ferdinand and Isabella sets off the action in this latest Washington, D.C.-insider tale from Truman (Murder at the Watergate, 1998, etc.). The bulk of the novel, however, unfolds at the nation's venerated reference institution. Gallery owner and former attorney Annabel Reed-Smith was looking forward to two months of research for her lead article of a special issue of the Library of Congress publication Civilization to be devoted to Columbus. Rumors have persisted for centuries about a possible second diary of the voyage to the New World written by Bartolom? de Las Casas, the explorer's confidant and friend. Annabel's work takes on greater urgency when she comes upon the dead body of pompous Las Casas expert and LC employee Michele Paul in the cubicle next to hers. Back in Miami, journalist Lucianne Huston is assigned to cover the art theft, during which a guard was killed. When she learns of Paul's murder, the reporter suspects a connection between the two crimes, as does Annabel, who discovers that another Las Casas exper
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- Author
- Margaret Truman
- Publisher
- Fawcett/Ballantine Books
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307422293
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (188 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Murder at the Library of Congress (Random House Large Print) (1999)
- Murder at the library of congress : Capital crimes series, book 16 (2009)
- Murder at the library of congress : Capital crimes series, book 16 (2011)
- Murder at the Library of Congress (Capital Crimes, #16) (1991)
- Murder at the Library of Congress : a capital crimes novel (1999)
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