The dots are back. I’ve been puzzled by these from my first year in Castle Bailey. I had forgotten them recently and stopped looking for them.

I probably sound insane writing about this. Let’s recap and I’ll see if doing so can guide me closer to a solution. I can do a Hercule Poirot on it. I mean, I worked out it was Gerry Daly eating in the library, surely I can sleuth this one out too, right?

Within a few months of starting to work at Castle Bailey Library I had my attention drawn to a red ink dot on page five of some of our fiction stock. A reader was returning books and they wanted me to know that it wasn’t them who had been doodling.

It’s a small red dot, definitely pen rather than pencil or crayon, and it’s beside the number 5 on the fifth num...

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