Murder One (bookshop)

Murder One was a bookshop in the Charing Cross Road from 1988 to 2009, "catering to readers interested in hard-to-find and collectable crime, mystery, romance and science fiction literature".[1] It was the first UK bookshop to specialize in the crime and mystery genres, and at its opening in 1988 the largest specialist "genre" bookshop in Europe.[2] It was owned by the novelist Maxim Jakubowski.

The bookshop closed upon the owner's retirement in January 2009.[3][4][5][6] The shop exists as a mail-order business, owned by a previous employee of the Murder One shop, Tanya Stone. Although the website was closed down, the business continues as a mail order business sending out PDFs of its quarterly crime catalogue. Murder One UK Ltd can be contacted by email.

References

  1. ^ New Media Age, 28 Sept. 2000.
  2. ^ Ken Gelder, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2004), p. 78
  3. ^ Hall, James (5 January 2009). "Murder One crime bookshop to close within weeks". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  4. ^ Evers, Stuart (8 January 2009). "Murder One closing so did we commit this crime?". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  5. ^ Durham, Nancy (3 February 2009). "Was it the internet in the library?". cbc.ca. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  6. ^ Swinson, Sheridan (16 January 2009). "The Word On: Murder One". The Independent. Retrieved 1 May 2021.

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