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?

By Jeffrey A. Rothermel August 25, 2022 Secret rooms were things I read about in Hardy Boy novels as a kid. I spent my youthful summers reading the pseudo-reality adventures by the numerous ghost writers known as Franklin W. Dixon. Later in my life, secret rooms were places we looked for and searched during counter-insurgency operations while serving in the U.S. Army. Today, as a bookdealer my packed schedule had nothing on it about the Hardy Boys and secret rooms. Today,