[PW] Re: "Library Police" Story Stumper

[swguardian-stumpers at yahoo.com]

James Holding published at least five mystery short stories about
"library cop Hal Johnson" in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE in
the 1970s/1980s. This volume has at least one of those, maybe more.
   
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine  Ellery Queen Masters of Mystery 
New York, New York, U.S.A. Galahad Books 1987 
  
Daphne Drewello <drewello at daktel.com> wrote:
  Shari Haber wrote

> A co-worker is looking for a story that she remembers reading in a short
> story anthology. She mainly remembers that there was a character(s?)
> called the "Library Police," who, naturally, went after people with
> overdue or lost books.

A place to start....

I vaguely remembered reading a short story in Ellery Queen Magazine
a long time ago about someone who called himself a library cop. Went
looking and found this June 2000 posting on Fiction-L list from Dennis
Lien (who else?):

http://www.webrary.org/Maillist/msg/2000/6/Re.Doesanyone.html

James Holding published at least five mystery short stories about
"library cop Hal Johnson" in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE in
the 1970s/1980s


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND





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