Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:25:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: mystery books
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- Kit Mason <kit at hers.com> wrote:
> Rich Lynch wrote:
> > Damn, me too.  I've been to author signings and
> > readings there many times -- Robert B. Parker,
> > Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, and most
> recently,
> > Elmore Leonard.  It's a cozy little place, and
> I'll
> > certainly stop in there next week one more time.
> >
> > A decade ago, there was three mystery book stores
> in
> > the area (two in Bethesda and the one here in DC).
>  I
> > think they're all gone now, a victim of the big
> chain
> > stores.
>
> The one on Old Georgetown in Bethesda went out of
> business some time
> last year.  Where was the other one?
>

The other one was the Scene of the Crime Bookstore on
a side street in Bethesda (Elm Street?); it looked to
be a converted duplex home, as there was some other
business on the other side of the house.

It only stayed in business about 5 years, I think, but
it was even friendlier than the Mystery Bookstore in
DC, if that's possible.  You would remember it if you
had ever gone to the Scene of the Crime, because just
inside the front door they had a chalked-in (well,
painted, actually) outline of a dead body.  Whenever
they had a book signing there, the store owners always
had home-made brownies and apple cider for those who
came to the store.  It was a great little book store.

=====
Rich Lynch
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