The Gun Also Rises

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When a wealthy Massachusetts widow hires Sara Winston to sell her enormous mystery collection through her garage sale business, Sarah is in mystery fan heaven. It's all she can do to not read every Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie and other mysteries she is sorting through. In The Gun Also Rises by Sherry Harris, Sarah is diligently working in the attic stuffed with books when she discovers a small overnight case. What she finds leads her into murder.

The overnight case contains short stories written by Ernest Hemingway in 1922, but lost when the case was stolen from a train in Paris. How in the world did it end up in the home of  Belle Winthrop Granville? Does Miss Belle even know the case and papers were in her attic?

Sarah shows Miss Belle the traveling case and the manuscripts, but she doesn't know anything about them or how they managed to be stored in her home. Miss Belle asks to be left alone to digest the news, but when Sarah returns, she finds Miss Belle injured and lying on the floor - and the overnight case gone. When Sarah learns the housekeeper Kay has stolen the case, she leaps into action, chasing into the woods after her.

When she finds, Kay dead and the overnight case missing, this leads her on a hunt for the stolen case. When she learns there might also be a first edition copy of The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway hidden in the house, a frantic search begins. Included in the search is a quirky, fanatical group known as The League of Literary Treasure Hunters, a rare-book dealer who happens to be a friend of the family and a mobster. 

For a high spirited treasure hunt, The Gun Also Rises has all that and more. An excellent book with just the right about of reality thrown in to make it plausible.