01898cam a2200433 i 4500 907181409 OCoLC 20221004162510.0 150529t20152015miu 000 1 eng 2015020309 9780310338499 (OCoLC)907181409 AJM pcc n-us-il PS3607.R3966 W364 2015 813/.6 23 Gray, Shelley Shepard, author. 12228 Whispers in the reading room / Shelley Gray. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2015] ©2015 344 pages ; 22 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. Includes excerpt from: The loyal heart / Robin Lee Hatcher (pages 341-344). "Just months after the closure of the Chicago World's Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given her his name; he actually never speaks to a single person. All she knows about him is that he loves books as much as she does ... Lydia and Sebastian form a fragile friendship, but when she discovers that Mr. Marks isn't merely a very wealthy gentleman, but also the proprietor of an infamous saloon and gambling club, she is shocked"--Page 4 of cover. Librarians Fiction. 10406 Man-woman relationships Fiction. 5884 Murder Fiction. 6010 Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. 640 Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft 485 Religious fiction. lcgft 1758 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Gray, Shelley Shepard. Chicago World's Fair mystery. 12229 .b140582101 ddc BOOK 28500 28500 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2022-10-04 15.99 2 GRAY 63955 2022-12-06 2022-11-23 2022-10-04 BOOK 1