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The Whole Record: A Women Sleuth Cozy Mystery

The Whole Record: A Women Sleuth Cozy Mystery

Thornefield, Eliza

Paperback

Series: The Calder College Mystery Society, Book 15

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798189842078
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The bibliographer never asks who did it. She asks who was never asked.

For eleven months, retired bookseller Sol Brenner has been looking for one honest person to verify four hundred and eleven Faircloth & Sons certificates - and has come to the uncomfortable conclusion that everyone qualified to do the work is, by definition, part of the problem.

Then an offer arrives from the last person the Watermark Consortium expected to hear from: Cressida Faircloth herself, the firm's disgraced former Director of Authentication, proposing to examine the very archive that ended her career. Unpaid. Unsupervised, unless the Consortium says otherwise.

Vivian Crewe and her circle of retired specialists must decide whether a finding built by an interested party can ever be believed. What they draft instead is a protocol stricter than anything they've required of anyone else: name the examiner, record the mark before the meaning, put every uncomfortable fact in the room's own hand.

What they uncover is not a forgery. It is something quieter and far harder to prosecute

- a thirty-year habit of true statements, arranged in an order that no single document ever discloses. And the same standard they built for Cressida Faircloth turns out to apply to the Consortium's own instrument, cited by institutions for a decade and never once checked by anyone at all.

No one is murdered. Everyone is exact. The evidence, as always in Wexford, is in the pencil.

The Whole Record is the fifteenth book in the Calder College Mystery Society series.

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