As has been stated a few times over the years, we [at Seattle Mystery Bookshop] all work so closely together that we start to read the same things to the point where we lack the breadth of knowledge and experience and can only recommend a too-narrow slice of the books here from what we all …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop announced last week that its founder, Bill Farley, is retiring. For real this time. Farley opened the store in 1990 after having worked at Whodunnit in Philadelphia and being told by visiting author Aaron Elkins that Seattle needed a specialty mystery shop. He sold the now-famous—or is it infamous?—shop to long-time employee JB …
The Seattle Mystery Bookshop opened in historic Pioneer Square in the summer of 1990. The store sells new and used, a large stock of signed firsts and a selection of collectibles—and it mails books to discerning mystery fans all over the planet. Seattle Mystery is a tourist destination and an author destination, hosting author signings nearly …
