Underneath the Lintel
A librarian delivers a one-day lecture about a Baedeker guide returned 113 years overdue to the Dutch library where he worked. The book’s loan record and a 73-year-old dry-cleaning ticket lead him to London and a trail of numbered clues. As the Librarian follows the evidence across time and place, he suspects the items belonged to Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew.