Except… While it is common practice to keep the old bookplate it doesn’t mean it is required or universal. Unusual, yes. Criminal? Not necessarily. You don’t need to call the police for the unusual (“My neighbor actually cleaned up after his dog pooped in my yard today! Check him out – that’s odd behavior!”)
But… Uh… The Caxton murder just happened. This book was brought into the shop months ago. This can’t be the Caxton volume. It has to be from the institute where Manutius worked, or one of the other earlier murders/thefts. And the institute bookplate would have immediately cried, “Theft” even if the murder hadn’t been discovered yet.
Called it two days ago.
Except… While it is common practice to keep the old bookplate it doesn’t mean it is required or universal. Unusual, yes. Criminal? Not necessarily. You don’t need to call the police for the unusual (“My neighbor actually cleaned up after his dog pooped in my yard today! Check him out – that’s odd behavior!”)
But… Uh… The Caxton murder just happened. This book was brought into the shop months ago. This can’t be the Caxton volume. It has to be from the institute where Manutius worked, or one of the other earlier murders/thefts. And the institute bookplate would have immediately cried, “Theft” even if the murder hadn’t been discovered yet.