The Library Paradox - Cambridge , Bk 3 Author:Catherine Shaw A famous -- and famously anti-Semitic -- professor has been killed, shot in his own library, and the police, eager to close the books on the murder, have arrested a young Jewish man who was conveniently on the scene. But this is 1896, and with the notorious "Dreyfus Affair" much in the news, Vanessa Weatherburn has real questions about... more » his guilt and about England's casual bigotry.
Finding the truth will take Vanessa deep into London's Hassidic community, where she struggles to understand the customs of a foreign country. But the effort will pay off, if only because it sheds some surprising light on a peculiar passion of Vanessa's -- a problem in mathematical logic posed by that young firebrand, Bertrand Russell, and known as... the Library Paradox. « less