Apparently there are a lot of mystery bookstores all over the world called As the Plot Thickens. This one was in Kingston and I do remember being in it in the 1990s. I don’t know when it closed.
Book: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories ed. by Otto Penzler
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Great name for a book shop, and cool book mark.
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I don’t remember it very well, but I seem to recall it was a neat place. I’d probably appreciate it more today, but . . .
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I’d kind of forgotten that there used to be genre bookstores. I’m so used to the “one stop shopping” mentality now that it takes something like this to remember it wasn’t always like that.
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Yep. I remember an SF bookstore years ago. But most niche shops like that have closed up. I guess there are still comic book stores but that’s pretty much it outside of major cities.
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I was in an sf bookstore once, just wandering around, and when I came out of a back room the proprietor was not happy. It turned out I’d wandered right into his stock room.
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I remember some used bookstores that had back rooms but you were allowed to go in them if . . . you were old enough. That’s where they kept all the, um, good stuff.
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For me that would be video stores. I really can’t remember any bookstores with the adult backroom, although I guess some had them. In fact it wasn’t until I went into an adult video store that I ever saw those Beeline books.
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There’s a Kurt Vonnegut book, I think maybe Slaughterhouse-Five, that talks about that front-of-the-store vs. the back-of-the-store thing. It might have been when Billy saw a Kilgore Trout novel in the front of the store.
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