As soon as I found out I was going to London, I searched the
Rara-Avis archives for information on bookstores. Two came up
and I checked them both out.
Murder One on Charing Cross Road.
Many bookstores festoon the area, but Murder One was my
destination. The store has a comic book shop feel. I mean
that in good way. The used section offered up Four for the
Money by Dan J. Marlowe and The Diamond Bikini by Charles
Williams. I read the first few pages of Four for the Money.
I'm happy with my purchase.
Crime in Store in the Covenant Garden area.
A short walk from Murder One, Crime in Store reminded me a
little of the Sleuths of Baker Street in Toronto - a little
yuppified. The used area gave up Nineteen Seventy-Four by
David Peace and a couple of Crime Time Magazines for a pound
each. 1974's back suggests it's like Ellroy doing Yorkshire
in the early Seventies. Sounded interesting to me. The Crime
Time Magazines which I've never seen before but have read
about on the web were extremely readable and informative with
articles about Jim Thompson and Edward Bunker.
In the new section, I couldn't help but pick up a bent copy
of Jason Starr's Fake ID. It was a bit beat-up so the kind
and lovely proprietor took off 1.50 pounds. That's a lot of
money in the land of mad cow.
Chong
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