"Gordon Walker seated himself in her wing chair; he appeared to be studying her.
'Forgive me, Miss Tryon, but may I say that you do not look at all like my idea of a librarian. Not in the least.' His smile indicated this was fortunate.
'Dare I ask, Mr. Walker, what that idea might be?' Glynis's smile was internal: she had not played this game for a long time.
'My experience in Boston,' he said, 'has been that there the few female librarians are dry old ladies with steel-framed spectacles, and hair pulled back so tightly their lips scarcely move when they talk. And they wear black, black dresses which button up over their chins.' (S. 129)
Das Buch "Seneca Falls Inheritance" von Miriam Grace Monfredo, das ich kürzlich fertiggelesen habe, ist einer der spannendsten Bibliothekskrimis, den ich kenne. Historischer Hintergrund ist die erste "Women's Rights Convention", die 1848 in Seneca Falls stattfand. Das Zusammenführen von historischen Persönlichkeiten wie Elizabeth Cady Stanton und Frederick Douglass mit fiktiven Figuren wie der Bibliothekarin Glynis Tryon, die "has chosen a life of independence over marriage and family" (Klappentext), ist wirklich sehr gut gelungen. Aus derselben Reihe habe ich auch einen der Fortsetzungsbände - "North Star Conspiracy" - gelesen, der sich besonders mit der Thematik Sklaverei und Zivilcourage befasst.
Angaben: Miriam Grace Monfredo: Seneca Falls Inheritance. Berkley Prime Crime 1994
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