I'm surprised sometimes by what books show up on my doorstep. When a bubble pack envelope shows up, I usually know how I got on this publisher's list, or I had requested a title from that publicist. Nibble and Kuhn by David Schmahmann , though, was a mystery. The Academy Chicago Publishers ? Never heard of them. Never heard of Schmahmann or his book, either. But as I cleaned out my "to be considered" stacks to donate to the Haddonfield Public Library Book Sale , the cover caught my eye -- the blurry background with the hazed out light pricks at the bottom. What the hell. I'll give it a go. If I didn't like it, I could always throw it in the donate pile. But I liked it! It's a tidy, not terribly taxing novel without a lot of twists and turns. It's a story about Derek Dover, a disillusioned Boston lawyer and two things: the girl he can't have, and the impossible case that is dropped into his lap. The book is also about a law firm that is trying