Is there a speciality book store, service or web site that searches for books for a fee?

Question

There's a book that I've been searching for, for a long time. I seem to recall that there is a store that advertises that if you know the plot or the picture on the cover, etc., that they'll search for the book (for a fee) and if they find the book the fee is applied to the cost of the book and if they don't find the book the fee is refunded.
Anyone heard of such a thing?
The book was about a girl who was abducted by a cult. The father began investigating and found that the cult leader was an expert in astral projection. The father then goes to a master who teaches the father all about astral projection.
The father tracks the cult leader and in a very supernatural ending, he does an astral projection battle with the cult leader, where they both inhabit inanimate objects around them and use the inanimate objects to do physical battle. If one can cut the other's 'silver threat' that connects the astral self to the physical body, the physical body that has been cut off will die.

Answer 1

www.loganberrybooks.com has a service called "Stump the Bookseller" in which you can post a query such as yours and try to get an answer. There is a $2 fee which I think is applied toward the book. They specialize in children's books, though.

I'd try to join a science fiction listserv and ask there. Several are listed here:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~phil/Disc/scifi.html

Good luck!

Answer 2

Ive never heard of such a service or such a book. I would personally recommend contacting the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Assn http://www.sfwa.org/ and asking them for info. There are also many regional Sci Fi Writers Assns. Look them up on Google and start writing letters if this is important to you. C.

Answer 3

check out www.abebooks.com, its free and you can search through millions of used books for sale by keywords etc. so try any keywords you might think of and before long you'll see it on there.