An Antiquarian, a gangster, and a woman with a lisp walk into a bar

From the Plantagenet years onwards, the Druins were said to be capable of swapping from Protestant to Roman Catholic and back again within the period of a single church service. Indeed, a secret library discovered during renovations of Druin Manor contained a copy of the catechism; the Bible in Greek, Latin, and English; a treatise on Calvinism; the Koran; the Tripitaka; and an Arabic book bound in curious leather that was later stolen by a gang consisting of an antiquarian, a mobster, and a woman with a lisp.

I was curious to find out more about the book that was stolen and who possibly this game might have been. I was not the only one asking this question. After moment of research, I found the question was asked in GoodReads as well.

Lo and behold I found that Aleksandra Mironova  had already asked Jonathan L. Howard this same question: Who are “an antiquarian, a gangster, and a woman with a lisp” from Johannes Cabal the Necromancer?

Jonathan L. Howard Replied:  Antiquarian, Criminal, Dilettante… the very epitome of a party of player-characters in a game of “Call of Cthulhu,” and exactly the sort of people who would make off with a copy of the “Necronomicon.” I really must annotate that book one of these days; it is absolutely awash with little references like that.

Our reply?

We’ll be the first to buy that annotated copy!