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    The Case of the Missing Books
    The Case of the Missing Books
    The Case of the Missing Books
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    The Case of the Missing Books

    By Ian Sansom

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    Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature’s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.

    Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he’s Jewish; he’s a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he’s just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library’s been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library.

    There’s nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper?

    Israel wants answers…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 8, 2010
    ISBN9780007395491
    The Case of the Missing Books
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    Ian Sansom

    Ian Sansom is the author of the Mobile Library and County Guides series of novels. He writes for the Guardian, the TLS, and the Spectator and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. He lives in County Down.

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    • 2/5
      A very interesting premise:A new Librarian is hired to run the Library, but when he arrives in the small Irish town, he finds the Library is closed and all the books are missing..... He is also given a rusted out old bus to use as the mobile library.....He is sent a chicken coop on a farm to live and is dismayed at all the meat being served for meals, as he is a vegetarian.The "board" sends the poor sap to find the missing books and they tell him where to find them, but he isn't bright enough to follow their guidance.There is quite a bit of subtle humor.... but all the affected "literary prose" and the basically unlikeable characters made me dislike the book....I rated this a 2nd star for the plot line.
    • 2/5
      Entertaining but not much more.
      The improbable succession of misfortunes that befall Israel Armstrong, challenge even the most willing voluntary suspension of disbelief. Not entirely unlovable though.
    • 4/5
      3.5 starsIsrael, a vegetarian Jewish librarian from London, has moved to Tumdrum, County Antrim, Northern Ireland to run the library there. But, after a horrible trip to get there and no one to greet him, he learns that the library has closed! Apparently, he is to run the mobile library instead. Unfortunately, the library books have all gone missing! Not only that, the people are not the least bit welcoming or helpful, he has to live in a chicken coop, and now he has to figure out where all the missing books are!I liked it. It was entertaining and there was a touch of humour. This is part of a series, but I'm not quite decided yet if I'll continue, although being a librarian myself, I just might, for the novelty of it.
    • 2/5
      I didn't really get this book at all. I didn't like the main character one bit. He was whiny and annoyed me as much as he annoyed his new neighbors. He bobbled along accusing everyone of stealing the books from the library and never quite got it right. The ending was a huge let down, too. I liked a few of the background characters. I'm going to have to think long and hard about grabbing book 2 to see if the series gets any better.
    • 3/5
      As The Case of the Missing Books begins, Israel Armstrong has arrived in Northern Ireland to take up the position of librarian for the small town of Tumdrum, only to find that the library has been closed. Israel, who considers himself something of a sophisticate is floored; after making an uncomfortable journey from London, the last leg of which was a ferry trip "full of Scots and Irish and possibly Scots-Irish lorry-drivers, men profoundly pale of colour and generous of figure, men possessed of huge appetites and apparently unquenchable thirst..." he learns that the job he's spent his whole life preparing for ("Israel had grown up in and around libraries. Libraries were where he belonged.") doesn't exist and that he is, instead, to be in charge of the district's mobile library. Or rather, as the Deputy Head of Entertainment, Leisure and Community Services corrects him, the "mobile learning centre."Israel is sent off in quest of the bookmobile itself, and then (after receiving a black eye at the hands of a local school administrator) is taken to his temporary lodging at a local farm. There, he is set up in the chicken coop.The next day adds mystery to the insult and injury he has already suffered in Tumdrum when Israel discovers that the library has been emptied of the 15,000 volumes which were meant to stock the bookmobile--ah, mobile learning centre--and that it is his responsibility to recover them. He spends the next 250 or so pages stumbling around, getting injured, alienating people, and drinking bad coffee.The mystery premise of The Case of the Missing Books is lovely, and the characters and countryside are brimming with potential. It reads too little like a mystery, however, and too much like an awkward homage to Cold Comfort Farm, one of the funniest books ever written. Unfortunately, Ian Sansom is not the craftsman that Stella Gibbons was. Where the humor in Cold Comfort Farm comes from the clash of cultures and the real menace given off by the characters, who all seem to be in on something about which the heroine is completely ignorant, The Case of the Missing Books just reads like a fish-out-of-water tale in which barely a single character has any depth or interest. The book did gain momentum toward the end, and although by that point it was too late to redeem this volume it did bode well for further installments of the Mobile Library Series.
    • 2/5
      I found the writing tedious: too much slapstick getting in the way of what seems to be an excellent plot.
    • 5/5
      You can never go wrong with Israel Armstrong, the North London, Vegetarian, & Jewish Mobile Librarian of Northern Ireland.
    • 1/5
      This book doesn't work. It just doesn't work. Israel Armstrong travels to rural Northern Ireland to become a librarian. He arrives to find that the library has been closed. His job is to drive the bookmobile, but all of the books have been stolen. It becomes Israel's job to search for the books in a place full of bizarre and unfriendly locals. There is so much about this book that doesn't work. Every instance of dialogue goes on for far too long. Israel is an absolutely pathetic character. He mopes around being miserable and refuses to do anything to improve his situation. The ending of the book is hardly an ending at all. This is one of those books that made me feel like I had wasted my time by reading it.
    • 3/5
      First in the Mobile Library Mysteries series. Israel Armstrong, an overweight corduroy-wearing vegetarian Jewish librarian, has only just arrived from London to take up the post of branch librarian at Tumdrum, County Antrim. After a hellish trip he discovers that the library has been closed due to budget cuts. His supervisor, Linda Wei (Northern Irish-Chinese Catholic) who is the Deputy Head of Entertainment, Leisure, and Community Services, gives him the job of driving the rickety mobile library - an old Bedford van that has been stashed in a chicken shed for the last few years. Armstrong is also housed in a semi-vacant chicken coop. The miserable Armstrong discovers that the entire stock, some 15,000 books, are missing from the library. It's just his luck that the council want to keep it quiet and delegate the job of finding them to him. The last third of the book improves. Slightly amusing but not fantastic - wouldn't read any more in the series.
    • 3/5
      Very easy read. Very amusing.
    • 4/5
      The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom is the first in a mystery series involving a bookmobile driving librarian in the outer wilderness of Northern Ireland.Israel Armstrong is a newly graduated librarian. He's been struggling to find work and because he's young, and not burdened with a family, has the flexibility to move. In his case it's from London to a small village in Northern Ireland, far enough away that it takes two days to get there if one is traveling on the cheap.His job is sold on one set of expectations: head of the library inside the village proper. The reality is completely different. The building has been shuttered and instead, the library is a bookmobile that is sitting in storage in the yard of the only taxi operation. The other hitch: there aren't any books!Not exactly. There are books but they aren't in the library. Nor are they in the bookmobile. They are somewhere else. If Israel is to prove himself worthy of the job to his employer and the village, he has to find the books.Now here's the thing: Israel who is set up as a comedic but sympathetic character isn't very likable. Sure he's tired. Sure he's had a long trip. And sure, the reality of the job is very different than what was promised. But if he's this upset about the situation, he should just shut up and go home, rather than making an ass of himself.But, and here's where I knock off a star from the rating, he doesn't. He spends the first half or so of the book snarking about the job, his living situation, the people of the village, and so forth. The actual mystery has to wait for Israel to get his head out of his ass and come to terms with the reality of his job before he actually decides to find the books.During the worst of Israel's tantrum, I found myself wishing I could trade places with him. I would love to be a bookmobile librarian (and have even applied to such a job). No luck so far, though, on my quest to drive one.
    • 2/5
      Adult fiction; sort-of mystery. Israel Armstrong is an out-of-place Londoner taking a job as a bookmobile librarian in rural Ireland, and makes for a bumbling, unlikely detective. Kind of amusing, but not that memorable overall.
    • 3/5
      Israel Armstrong has finally been offered a proper job as a librarian and leaves London for Northern Ireland for it, but when he arrives the library has been closed, his job is now driving a broken-down mobile library bus, and, to top it off, someone has made off with all 15,000 library-books. This is marketed as a humorous mystery and it is both, but in rather small measures - Israel starts off funny and I did giggle a few times, but the same type of humor is repeated throughout, and it gets increasingly unfunny (having a character say "bless you" when Hanukkah is mentioned wasn't funny the first time and isn't subsequent times either). He's also too whiny and incompetent to be likable, so all the miseries that happen to him don’t make me feel sympathy, but rather irritation. And the mystery is solved not by Israel at all, even though some of his time is spent searching, but by deus ex machina when a villager decides to return the lot. The main crime though, is that the characters are all two-dimensional and it seems that Israel has ended up in the one village in the world where every inhabitant is disgruntled, quite mean, and performs actions that make no sense whatsoever. I had a few others in the series in my bookcase, but they'll be donated away together with this one.
    • 3/5
      A likely young librarian from England, with the somewhat unlikely name of Israel finally finds a job. The only catch? It's in northern Ireland. When he arrives, after an arduous and extremely uncomfortable journey, Israel finds the library he's supposed to run, closed. Now they want him to run a mobile library instead. And if that weren't bad enough? All the books are gone. That's right - all 15,000 of them. Kept against his will by an unfair contract, he is now presented with the impossible task of finding the missing books. Until the thief is found, Israel is stuck in Ireland.This book is not quiet to my taste. I thought the concept was interesting, but all the characters were too fantastically unfriendly to be believed. Every last person that Israel meets hates him on sight. Several attack him physically. Everyone, without exception deride him and mock him mercilessly without cause or provocation. Some people might find that sort of thing amusing, but I just found it inexplicable and hard to believe.
    • 3/5
      A 30-ish English librarian named Israel Armstrong travels to Northern Ireland to take charge of the Tumdrum and District Public Library. Unfortunately the library has been closed due to budget constraints and Israel is coerced into driving the mobile library van. But first he has to find the entire 15,000 book inventory so there’s something to loan out and he’s not allowed to involve the police.

      This book is funny. A Ben Elton/Douglas Adams/Bill Bryson kind of funny. An observational, devil’s in the detailed descriptions kind of funny. In fact Israel reminded me of my favourite Adams character, Arthur Dent. He’s grizzly, naturally lazy and totally unsuited for the trials he faces. He’s not always likeable but, as someone who shares his pathological fear of being without something to read, I did find him loveable. There’s also a cast of wonderfully eccentric minor players as icing on the cake.

      The mystery element here is pretty light. Almost invisible really. Even judging the book as general fiction the plot is not its standout feature. It’s a little contrived and a little lacking in interesting developments for that. Although it is actually quite nice to read a ‘cosy’ where people aren’t tripping over dead bodies in Jessica Fletcher style. And anyway, any minor plot deficiencies are more than made up for by terrific characters and great writing.

      It’s a light, quick, fun read and I dare you not to laugh out loud. Go on I dare you.

      My rating 3.5 (= good, solid entertaining read with a spark of something extra)
    • 3/5
      I'm torn about this book. I love the premise, I like the idea of getting a library started using a "mobile", or in the US we would say a bookmobile. What bothered me about the book was they way the main characters interacted. The librarian is almost always interrupted so often that I'd be hard pressed to say that he was allowed to finish more than a sentence or two in the whole book. It was a characterization of librarians that bothers me - they are inarticulate and stutter and stammer their way through life, and they also cannot assert themselves to get something as simple as a pill for a headache. I'm going to read the next book in the series but if the librarian stays in that stereotype it will be the last I read of this author.
    • 4/5
      First in a series featuring fish-out-of-water librarian Israel Armstrong, a North London, Jewish vegetarian who accepts a placement in Northern Ireland as the only library work he can get. When he gets there, he’s dismayed to find that the library is closed: what he’ll actually be running is the mobile library, based in a rusting, decrepit old van, currently garaged in a chicken shed. Worse yet: the books are missing. It’s up to whiny, ineffectual Israel, with the help of the pugilistic Ted, the van’s driver, to find the books, get the van on the road, and bring literature back to the people of County Antrim.Lively and entertaining, if a bit fixated on poo. Israel is irritating, but not wholly without his good points, and the local population isn’t quite entirely made up of stereotypes. Almost, but not quite. Worth seeing how the second book goes.
    • 5/5
      A mystery novel doesn't necessarily have to have a murder, but without bloodshed it helps to have humor and some intriguing characters to keep readers glued to its pages. That has been the secret of Alexander McCall Smith's successful No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Ian Sansom's Mobile Library series has yet to catch on - just try to find a copy of one of his books in stock in your local bookstore - but it deserves success, if the first novel in the series, "The Case of the Missing Books" (2006), is any indication.Israel Armstrong, a bookish Londoner, takes a job as librarian in Tumdrum, a small town in Northern Ireland. There are just two problems, as he discovers upon his arrival. First, the library has been closed for economic reasons. Only a beat-up bookmobile or mobile library still exists. Second, all the books in the mobile library are missing. Israel's first task as librarian is to find those missing books.He makes a terrible detective, and his ineptitude is part of the fun. Then, too, there are the many quirky townsfolk, who seem to take offense at everything Israel does while at the same time giving greater offense to him. Israel wants only to quit and return to London, but he is warned that unless he succeeds in finding those missing books, his temporary contract will be extended.Sansom, who lives in Northern Ireland, comes up with some nifty sentences. Here are a few of my favorites:"You wouldn't mind him driving your cab, but you wouldn't want to have to argue over the fare. Israel strongly suspected tattoos.""'Mind if I smoke?' said Ted."'Not at all,' said Israel, although he did mind actually, but he couldn't say he did because he was a liberal ...""Israel reckoned he was probably the most politically correct person in about a hundred-mile radius at this very moment but even he couldn't help noticing her legs.""... he was the sort of person, after all, who could get nostalgic about yesterday's breakfast."Those lines can give one a pretty good picture of the kind of man Israel Armstrong is, and also the kind of book this is. I enjoyed it immensely.
    • 2/5
      No. I did not like this novel. I think it must be much harder to write a funny and humorous novel than other kind of novels. Or maybe it´s me...It´s VERY seldom I found a novel funny that is promoted as such. Often I just find them tedious, boring and full of meaninglessness - and not even fun meaninglessness.Well, I´m not going to read another Ian Sansom.
    • 3/5
      This book made me laugh out loud a couple times, but it also failed to hold my interest for a few periods, like towards the end. The protagonist was kind of likeable, but also kind of blah. Certainly not much action.I'm not sure if I'll try the second one in the series or not.
    • 4/5
      Okay, so it's not your classic mystery novel. More of a humorous romp with a mystery as the excuse to write the book. If you're looking for P.D. James or Agatha Christi, this isn't it. But Sansom has a wacky sense of humour that makes this a fun read, with a few laugh-out-loud bits as well. I picked this book up partly because I like novels set in Ireland. However, the Irish angle has only a bit part in this novel; rural Yorkshire or west Texas probably would have worked just as well. The point is to drop a Londoner down in the middle of a 'foreign' culture and see what kind of crazy trouble he can get into without really trying. And it works. A fun, quick read with lots of laughs and, yes, a genuine mystery to drive the plot along. Os.
    • 4/5
      From the ratings it is obvious that this is a book you either love or hate. It is not, strictly speaking, a mystery novel contrary to the title of the book and series. It is a humorous slapstick novel about the bumbling Israel Armstrong, new mobile librarian of a small town in Ireland. If you expected a mystery novel you will be sorely disappointed. If you expected deep prose you will be equally turned off. If you don't mind laughing at librarians, the Irish, Jews, or Jewish librarians in Ireland then you will probably enjoy this novel.
    • 3/5
      Because Israel Armstrong is broke he puts up with both the bureaucratic shenanigans of his Irish employers, and the stubborness and belligerence of the Irish townspeople he is meant to serve. Israel arrives in Ireland from London to find the new job he expected has been changed without his knowledge. But things get much worse when he learns what his new assignment is. It is only because he loves books and is VERY sensitive that he manages to survive (barely) and accomplishes the impossible. Very funny... but also contrived.
    • 1/5
      More like the case of the missing sense of humour on my part.
    • 5/5
      When I saw Ian Sansom's name on a book in the mystery section, I knew not to expect an Agatha Christie yarn. I've read Sansom's book reviews for some time, and that experience told me not to expect all the characters assembled in a dustry drawing room for the final scene.But once I turned the first page I was hooked. His Mobile Library series, of which this is the first book, takes place in a tiny town in northernmost Northern Ireland. And the hero, Israel Armstrong, is a vegetarian Jew librarian from London. The mystery itself has nothing to do with a murder -- its about what happened to the town's books. It sems they have all disappeared. But the mystery is only the unifying thread in what is essentially a series of surreal everyday experiences in Israel's life. And they are laugh out loud funny. It is a sort of Little Britain in book form, and I am so pleased I got to enjoy the Israel Armstrong Show.
    • 2/5
      I laughed a lot in the course of reading this silly book, but was glad when I reached the last page and have no interest in reading anything more by the author. Israel Armstron, the would-be librarian in a North Ireland town, is a goofball and not an admirable person.. The "mystery" is: where are the library's books? It is not solved by the pretended detective, who makes no sense and to act as if this is a 'literary' mystery is to insult the genre.
    • 2/5
      If you enjoy run-on sentences (I realize it is for stylistic reasons, but it still gets really tiring) and... hm.... let me just say it was an okay book, a fast, light read, and a bit of an unpredictable resolution. Not sure I care about Israel Armstrong's further adventures...
    • 3/5
      It's not great lit, not even great mystery writing, but it is an amusing, pleasant cozy read. Israel Armstrong, a down and out librarian wannabe from London, tires of his job working in a bookstore, and prodded by his girlfriend (who appears to be tiring of his "Poor me" attitude) takes a job as librarian in Tumdrum, County Antrim. He arrives to find a notice on the door that the library is closed due to 'reallocation of resources'. He is shocked and dismayed to find that he is expected to drive a mobile library (i.e., a bookmobile), live in a renovated chicken coop, and Oh yeah....by the way, the library's books --all 15,000 of them--- seem to have disappeared.His misadventures due to language difficulties and his personal fuddy-duddiness (is that a word?) are somewhat humorous, and are the stuff of which BBC comedy shows are made.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. I don't want to say too much in case Igive away all the fun, but the story involves an unsuccessfullibrarian who arrives at his first real library job to discover thatthe library has been closed. Thanks, Kristen, for telling me aboutthis one.
    • 4/5
      I've awarded this one a four star rating for entertainment value. Great literature it isn't but I think the author would be shocked if anyone suggested it was. I am sure he set out simply to write a jolly romp that, with a bit of luck, might launch a series and generate sufficient cash flow to pay for his season ticket (rail/soccer/rugger depending on his preference or greatest need). I think he succeeded, though I can appreciate why others would conclude differently. Humour is highly subjective. Most of the television comedy that people rave about leaves me stone cold, and I could well imagine that I would not have liked this as a TV show but in book form there were times when it literally had me laughing out loud. I didn't feel any great affection or sympathy for the hero, or indeed for any of the characters, but it didn't seem to matter. My favourite witty moments were the slogan written on the side of the mobile library - "The Book Stops Here" - and the description of a rather plain and austere Presbyterian church as looking as though the Reformation had occurred within the past fortnight. It would certainly be worth 50 pence if you saw it on a stall at the church fair, though admittedly that probably sounds like damning with faint praise (if one can talk of damning and church fairs in the same sentence), and clearly such a purchase would do nothing to help Mr Sansom obtain that season ticket - neither did I, I picked it up at my local (non-mobile) library!

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    The Case of the Missing Books - Ian Sansom

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