Type to Kill: A clean, cat-friendly cozy where an antique typewriter hides a murder method and a decades-old secret

About Type to Kill: A clean, cat-friendly cozy where an antique typewriter hides a murder method and a decades-old secret

I love an artifact day: estate-sale coffee, dusty shelves, one sensible purchase. This time I bring home a 1937 Remington that types like a metronome… and spits out threats. Before I can even figure out why it’s locked on the letter E, the winning bidder at the auction preview drops dead.

The lab report makes it worse: digitoxin on the ribbon. Someone swapped the ink and expected no one to notice the “heavy E” until it was too late. Now my quiet bookshop life is back to being murder-adjacent.

The suspects are lined up and smiling. A rival collector with sharp elbows. An heir with empty pockets and too many secrets.

An auctioneer who loves a bidding war. A local historian offering help a little too quickly. Everyone wants the Remington.

Everyone wants what it’s hiding. Because the typewriter isn’t just vintage. It’s a key.

A hidden compartment. A repair tag that reads like a call-number code. A scrap of violet dust jacket that shouldn’t exist.

And a rumor that the missing librarian’s map was real all along. Chief Hart tells me to keep out of it.