A replacement for my disintegrated copy of Murder Must Advertise, an unfamiliar pulp gothic whose name and author I do not remember but whose back copy prominently featured identical twins, a book of Houdini's collected writings on How To Successfully Commit Crimes, and a turn-of-the-century novel called American Wives and English Husbands which I bought one hundred percent because of the adorable front-copy inscription from a 1902 child to his parents.