The Pretty Little Box

At first glance, the miniature book of hours with gilt-edged pages and the beautiful box that contains it look too small to be of any real consequence—which is exactly why the woman, hardly a thief in her day-to-day life, doesn’t think twice about pocketing the package when it catches her eye at the local antiquarian bookshop. But this minor transgression sets in motion a series of events, each one more disastrous than the one before it; as the pretty little box changes hands—being misplaced, stolen, lost, and discarded—it leaves a path of death and destruction in its wake. Meanwhile, all along, one question courses through this chilling history: is the book really the source of its dreadful power, or are the would-be owners of the item already cursed by their covetous desire to possess it—each impelled by one of the seven deadly sins.

The Bibliomystery Series is published for and by the legendary Mysterious Bookshop in New York. These short stories feature books and those who write them, buy them, read them, collect them, sell them or are in some way involved with them. The individual books are small format pocket sized (ca. 10cm x 17cm).

Gumshoe Books is able to offer the Bibliomysteries exclusively in the UK.