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Offers like Slater's don't come along every day. All Janeway has to do is bring a runaway girl on bail for aggravated burglary back to New Mexico, collect the first five thousand dollars, and then double it if he's lucky enough to find a rare book the girl stole. But it's not just the money that's drawn Janeway. The girl he's after is really named Eleanor Rigby, Seattle's secondhand shops are temples to the lost art of small-scale publishing, and the book is Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, published by Grayson Press in 1969, an edition that officially doesn't exist. But Janeway's old detective instincts will lead him back to a long-forgotten chapter in crime history: a series of unsolved and seemingly unrelated murders. He'll soon discover that he's actually been hired to find "The Raven." If the book exists, it could be worth a fortune. But the people who may have possessed it have an unpleasant penchant for violent death... John Dunning's first novel with the character of Cliff Janeway, "Death of a Bookseller", won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award, and his novels "Looking for Ginger North" and "Deadline" were nominated for the Edgar Award. An expert in rare and valuable books, Dunning is the owner of Old Algonquin Bookstore and Antiques in Denver, where he trades rare and first editions to select buyers.