Murder One (bookshop)

Murder One was from 1988 to 2009 a 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 closed upon the owner’s retirement in January 2009.[3][4] The shop still exists as a mail order business, owned by a previous employee of the Murder One shop, Tanya Stone.[5]

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. Reported in the Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Independent
  4. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/was-it-the-internet-in-the-library-1.840730
  5. www.murderone.co.uk

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