Fawcett, New York, 2001, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-449-00195-4.  MMPB, 310 pages.  Unread copy with lightly tanning pages; sticker ghost on rear wrap.  ‘But when amateur D. C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American institution, she discovers a hornet’s nest of intrigue and murder.  After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to death among the scholarly stacks, an ambitious TV reporter links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City.  Annabel suspects that buried in the library are secrets some people will do anything to keep silent – the secret of a rich man’s ambition, a researcher’s disappearance, and a mysterious diary of Christopher Columbus’s journey written five hundred years ago….’ (from rear wrap)