“No, dear. I’ll let you get back to work. I think I heard someone come into the shop a minute ago.”
Lucarno walked with Mrs. Spielman to the door. Then Adam heard Ted murmur something.
“Dr. Craig,” Lucarno said, coming down the row between the bookshelves. “You found us!” He offered his hand.
“Hello, Mr. Lucarno,” Adam said as they shook hands. “I had no trouble finding you. And please call me Adam.”
“Okay, and I’m Tony. It’s good to meet you at last.”
“And you! I was just beginning to explore. You have a lot of goodies here. I love places like this. They even smell wonderful.”
Tony chuckled. “The incense of scholarship, Reginald Hill called it. Or maybe in our case the incense of bibliophilia. You really are a bibliophile if you like our particular kind of must.”
“Oh, I am.”
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