CHAPTER NINEA Ghost
In the catalogue department Gamadge could find nowhere in any compilation of or guide to periodical literature the name of Isabel Wakes. These reference books did not list the pulps; Gamadge had hoped that Mrs. Wakes contributed elsewhere under her own name. He moved to the card indexes, wrote out slips, and then went and sat in front of the desk in the reading room, waiting for his number to come up.
He got his books, sat down at a table, and attacked them. Jeremy Wakes had written three books, not much more than a collection of anecdotes strung on comment that was thin and coy:
Browsings on the Quai
Oddities in Old Libraries
A Bookman’s Diary
Jeremy Wakes had browsed, but in pastures far from new. The oddities in his works were not as odd now as they had seemed
