Murder One (bookshop)
Murder One was from 1988 to 2009 a well known bookshop in the Charing Cross Road, "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's closure upon the owner’s retirement in January 2009 was reported nationally[3] and internationally.[4]
The bookshop still exists as a mail order business - Murder One UK, and is owned by the previous employee of the Murder One shop, Tanya Stone.[5]
References
- ^ New Media Age, 28 Sept. 2000.
- ^ Ken Gelder, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2004), p. 78
- ^ Reported in the Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Independent
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/03/f-rfa-durham.html
- ^ www.murderone.co.uk