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    For Want of a Book: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
    For Want of a Book: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
    For Want of a Book: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
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    For Want of a Book: A Francis Bacon mystery short story

    By Anna Castle

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    All Francis Bacon wants is a book, but when he reaches his favorite bookshop, the printer drags him into a murder investigation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnna Castle
    Release dateSep 2, 2018
    ISBN9781386613602
    For Want of a Book: A Francis Bacon mystery short story
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    Anna Castle

    Anna Castle writes the Francis Bacon mysteries and the Lost Hat, Texas mysteries. She has earned a series of degrees -- BA in the Classics, MS in Computer Science, and a PhD in Linguistics -- and has had a corresponding series of careers -- waitressing, software engineering, grammar-writing, assistant professor, and archivist. Writing fiction combines her lifelong love of stories and learning. She physically resides in Austin, Texas and mentally counts herself a queen of infinite space.

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