It was a typical bookstore day. Typical, because no two days are ever the same. Today's mystery appeared to have invalid ISBNs. Similar to a car with the wrong license plates, the battered 1982 academic book about Nigerian crime had an eBay ISBN for vegan soup recipes printed in 2019. Was this simply another story data entry error story? Or was this an Oxford University Press Counterfeit from Nigeria?

Bookstores deal in obvious secrets. Some mysteries are not easily solved. The secrets of solving book mysteries.

This Captain's Log entry highlights what can go wrong when no one opts to scrutinize what they have.

Publishers occasionally use artistic license...

Bookstores deal in obvious secrets. Cookbooks [food & drink] along with sci-fi/fantasy are some of the books that people hunt and trade.

Since Hercules, the age-old question about addressing good and evil drips into dragon evolution.

I discovered that some Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition (5e) books have an intriguing storyline. Hoard of the Dragon Queen is about alliances.