Bestselling novelists are being murdered and the authors' first edition books are selling at astronomical prices on online auction sights, garnering a fortune for some lucky individuals. Palm Springs rare book dealer Xanthe Anthony watches the events with interest until he becomes the prime suspect. When Anthony is jailed on suspicion of murder, he asks an Internet hacker to help track down the real murderer. But as the body count continues to rise, Anthony has to act fast if he's to escape the net of justice slowly closing around him. Set in 1995, when the internet was new and the book world was only beginning to transform into the online mega-industry it is today, this novel captures a time of techno cowboys and literary intrigue like no other. Biblio-Mystery: a traditional murder mystery with a book or author as a key component to it's core dilemma.