(Doubleday Books) Mallory, three years into a “temporary” internship at Swansby’s, the smaller, disgruntled and forgotten tome akin to the Oxford English Dictionary, mainly fields vaguely threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. David Swansby, heir apparent who indulges his online chess addiction for most hours of the working day, then tasks her with ferreting out mountweazels (n.), deliberately constructed but bogus entries, of which, he has just discovered, Swansby’s is overrun. Meanwhile, in 189 … (read more)
