The Archivist : a novel
(Book)
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Published
Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
642 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY PICKET 2021
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adultery -- Fiction.
Archives -- Processing -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Fiction.
Cataloging of archival materials -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
San Diego (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Women archivists -- Fiction.
Archives -- Processing -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- Fiction.
Cataloging of archival materials -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
San Diego (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Women archivists -- Fiction.
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Published
Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
When archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started--to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has been short-listed for the Nobel. Emily's job comes with its inherent pressures. West's wife, Elizabeth, is an heiress who's about to donate $25 million to the Memorial Library--an eight-story architectural marvel that is the crown jewel of the university. The inaugural event in just a few months will be a gala for the who's who of San Diego to celebrate the unveiling of the Raymond West Collection and the financial gift that made it all possible. As Emily sets to work on the West papers, it begins to dawn on her that several items have gone missing from the collection. To trace their whereabouts, she gains unsupervised access to the highly restricted "dark archives," in which she opens a Pandora's box of erotically and intellectually charged correspondence between Raymond West and the late Nadia Fontaine. Through their archived emails, Emily goes back a year in time and relives the tragic trajectory of their passionate love affair. Did Nadia really drown accidentally, as the police report concluded, or could it have been suicide, or, even worse, murder? Compelled to complete the collection and find the truth, Emily unwittingly morphs into an adult Nancy Drew and a one-woman archivist crusader on a mission to right the historical record. Twisting slowly like a tourniquet, The Archivist turns into a suspenseful murder mystery with multiple and intersecting layers. Not just a whodunit, it is also a profound meditation on love, privacy, and the ethics of destroying or preserving materials of a highly personal nature.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pickett, R. (2021). The Archivist: a novel (First edition.). Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pickett, Rex. 2021. The Archivist: A Novel. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pickett, Rex. The Archivist: A Novel Blackstone Publishing, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pickett, Rex. The Archivist: A Novel First edition., Blackstone Publishing, 2021.
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