The Jenny: A New York Library Detective Novel
Jan 1994 · David Beasley
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Library detective Rudyard Mack, with the help of outspoken library union leader Arbuthnott Vine, leads us through the corridors of power in one of the country's showplaces, the New York Public Library, in pursuit of the biggest stamp theft in history. The centrepiece is the 'Inverted Jenny', the rare 24 cent 1918 airmail stamp, in which the mail plane was printed upside down. ”... excels like the best of detective fiction,” Canadian Stamp News
Library detective Rudyard Mack, with the help of outspoken library union leader Arbuthnott Vine, leads us through the corridors of power in one of the country's showplaces, the New York Public Library, in pursuit of the biggest stamp theft in history. The centrepiece is the 'Inverted Jenny', the...
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David R. Beasley was born and schooled in Hamilton, Ontario. He graduated from McMaster University with a B.A. [Literature and History], studied in Paris and Vienna. In New York City, he earned a master’s degree in Library Science, worked in the New York Public Research Libraries, led the New York Library Guild, AFSCME Local 1930 and earned a PhD in political economy at the progressive New School for Social Research. He moved to Simcoe, Ontario in 1992 and continued to write and publish books under his imprint Davus Publishing. Awarded Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his writings.
David R. Beasley was born and schooled in Hamilton, Ontario. He graduated from McMaster University with a B.A. [Literature and History], studied in Paris and Vienna. In New York City, he earned a master’s degree in Library Science, worked in the New York Public Research Libraries, led the New Yor...
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