Arno B. Zimmer

mystery novel writer and antiquarian book collector

[Arno B. Zimmer @arno_zimmer]

When photographs from a WWII Nazi file are discovered in an old torpedo factory, a patrician Virginia family panics and people start dying. “Free” ebook today only! Here’s the link: https://t.co/OXirE5ahwc.

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@annbauerwriter @jeffreytucker @Storyaliz In the late 1800s, RLS stopped at The Old Pirate’s House in Savannah, GA where he was allegedly inspired to write this classic novel. Today, pages from a rare addition of Treasure Island adorn the walls of the Captain’s Room.

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@DA_Stockman @jeffreytucker Hey, it worked for Big Pharma. Just a question of how much it will cost to corral enough votes.

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@libsoftiktok Gulliver among the Lilliputians

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Missed you at my recent Author Expo appearance in Fairfield, CT. Check out my latest murder mystery here: https://t.co/OXirE5ahwc.

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@jeffreytucker I recently bought an old book from a London shop and got hit with $38 surcharge when it was erroneously categorized as an “antique.” FedEx was relentless in trying to collect.

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@brianchau57 @seanmdav I’ve reached the point where I fear that 50% of federal spending is grift and fraud. Perhaps, a low estimate?

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If you’re in the Fairfield, CT area this weekend, I’ll be signing copies on my latest murder mystery at the library on Post Road - or you can get all my novels in ebook or paperback format here: https://t.co/OXirE5ahwc.

[Arno B. Zimmer @arno_zimmer]

If you’re in the Fairfield, CT area this weekend, I’ll be signing copies on my latest murder mystery at the library on Post Road - or you can get all my novels in ebook or paperback format here: https://t.co/OXirE5ahwc.

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Sometimes, great literature is also great art, as in the case of the 1848 first edition of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Bound by Rivière, official bookbinders to Queen Victoria, this copy features a crushed Morocco goatskin leather binding and a spine with elaborate gilt design. Open the book to marbled endpapers and gilt edging. On the vignette title page is the first of 39 illustrations by Thackeray himself. In this instance, we see the author’s alter ego gazing into a mirror, echoing the final page of the novel where “Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum!” takes the reader back to the original warning in the Book of Ecclesiastes 1:2.

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If you love great novels, the arrival of a new first edition adds a spark to the day. The Newcomes (by the fictional editor A. Pendennis) is another masterpiece by the great Victorian satirist William Makepeace Thackeray, best known for Vanity Fair. @thewaronbeauty

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@thewaronbeauty Dr. Samuel Johnson is revered by many as the greatest English Man of Letters that ever lived.

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@amlivemon @mirandadevine And “free” lunch at school (not really but that’s what the administrative state calls it in their infinite abuse of language) eliminates another critical time of family interaction at the beginning of the day.

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@mirandadevine He is a self-aggrandizing puppet in a sordid show. Vanitas Vanitatum

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@libsoftiktok He is a self-aggrandizing puppet in a sordid show. Vanitas Vanitatum.

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@MeadChapelVT @BlueBoxDave Feckless college administrators fearful of student revolt, layered with contempt for their own history.

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“Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but I’m actually reading Huckleberry Finn on this little device. How do you like The Antiquary Book Murders?” https://t.co/OXirE5ahwc

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@johnddavidson @seanmdav Why not go after the outside recruiters and the HR execs who hire them?

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@TheAmanuensis @rogerkimball Hey, I was just reading Huck Finn on my phone while sitting with the author

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Dude … this is absolutely BANANAS

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