Jewett Letters

When a carefully packed box from a friend's estate arrives at Marginalia Rare Books, Marisol Brandt-Halberstam expects responsibility. She does not expect one of the most significant Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence discoveries in decades.Inside are twenty-three letters, manuscript fragments, photographs, and a letter of record that places the packet at the center of a delicate provenance problem. Before the material can enter the public record, Marisol must authenticate the collection, answer an anticipated counter-claim, coordinate with scholars and institutions, and protect the archive from becoming anything less than cleanly documented truth.Set in the coastal Maine village of Halsey Harbor, The Jewett Letters is a warm, intelligent rare-book mystery about friendship, literary stewardship, and the patient work required to move fragile paper from private keeping into the archive of record.Perfect for readers who love cozy mysteries, bookshop settings, archival discoveries, literary history, and mysteries solved through evidence, patience, and care.