Seattle PI Blog post from new blogger Nancy Mattoon:
As librarians are well aware, even in the book world no good deed goes unpunished. Getting the right book into the right hands seems innocent enough–until it isn’t. Headline hungry scribes sometimes seek to link books and crime. (The permanent stain on “The Catcher in the Rye” after being found in the possession of both Mark David Chapman and John Hinkley post-crime is the most notorious example.) And censors still have a field day with the “evil” items made available in the Children’s Room. (Top targets on that hit parade: the “Harry Potter” series and Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy) But what of the notion that books can actually help fight crime? Two recent stories point out how the humble book may be a useful tool for the Thin Blue Line.
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