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Seattle Mystery Book

@SeattleMystery

For those who know what they want, and those who haven't a clue.

 Seattle, WA
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Joined July 2009
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Visiting Old Haunts mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
Visiting Old Haunts

Visiting Old Haunts

Downtown for a Mariners’ game, we parked “in front of the shop”, like we used to. It isn’t a bad walk to the park and you’re out of the worst of the traffic when headi…

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May 2023 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
May 2023

May 2023

Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading New James Bond Story ‘On His Majesty’s Secret Service’ Commissioned to Celebrate King Charles’ Coronation [more 007 ahead ~ 007=’] Watch the onl…

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Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is back April 29! mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is back April 29!

Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is back April 29!

Sample WA’s wealth of bookstores for Seattle Independent Bookstore Day

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From the New Yorker mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
From the New Yorker

From the New Yorker

“Where is your section for books by people who aren’t obviously running for President?” by Brendon Loper

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April 2023 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
April 2023

April 2023

People were always amazed at our ability to recognize books that they’d read but couldn’t remember. Our joke, when working with such questions, was that someone would inevitably come in…

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That old stamp – – – mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
That old stamp – – –

That old stamp – – –

If you remember back to when we used to stamp our plain, brown bags. We had a skull and crossbones, a Sherlock head, and a few others. One was a hardboiled image of a guy shooting a tommygun. I alw…

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Beyond Raold Dahl and Ian Fleming mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
Beyond Raold Dahl and Ian Fleming

Beyond Raold Dahl and Ian Fleming

From Grand Master Lawrence Block ~ There’s been a fair amount of media attention paid lately to the decisions of the estates of both Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to make extensive edits to thei…

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March 2023 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
March 2023

March 2023

A Murder Mystery With Clothes to Die For Codebreakers crack secrets of the lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots Wienermobile hit by catalytic converter thieves, stranding it in Las Vegas. ‘No way’ …

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Local Criminal Entertainments mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
Local Criminal Entertainments

Local Criminal Entertainments

Book It Theatre’s world-wide premiere of Danielle Mohlman’s adaption of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd runs Feb. 8 – March 5 15th Noir City festival celebrates 1948 films at SIFF Cin…

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February 2023 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
February 2023

February 2023

X marks the spot: newly released treasure map sparks hunt for £15m Nazi hoard Town Forced to Tell Treasure Hunters to Please Stop Looking for Nazi Gold Florence Pugh called John le Carré an “old f*…

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Ready, Aim…… mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…

Ready, Aim……

Now, granted, the Seattle Mystery Bookshop hosted hundreds and hundreds of “book launches”. None, however, were quite like this – – – – Michael de Adder, January…

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January 2023 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
January 2023

January 2023

Book Stuff An Exhibition Exalts the Book as a Bedrock of Cultural Memory Smithsonian exhibit digs out the ‘nature’ in old books These 5 Words Have Been Selected As 2022’s “Word Of The Y…

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HO HO HO mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…

HO HO HO

Yes, Incredibly, Another 10 Crime Movies You Forgot Take Place at Christmas Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in Dashiell Hammett’s comic classic (Christmas) tale The Thin Man Staring John Cusak, Bil…

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December 2022 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
December 2022

December 2022

Words of the Month maundered (v): talked in a rambling, foolish, or meaningless way. Interesting Stuff Today in AWWWW: Reading out loud to dogs improves literacy in kids. Professional cornhole worl…

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November 2022 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…

November 2022

Bookish DIY Kits To Buy and Make for Holiday Gifting Calling Dr. Hiaasen: Pro Fishing Roiled by Wild Walleye Cheating Scandal Chess star Hans Niemann accused of cheating by rival has likely done so…

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For Halloween mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…

For Halloween

Artist Creates “Skeleton Key” Skull Made Out of Vintage Keys

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October 2022 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
October 2022

October 2022

SEATTLE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKFAIR ~ October 8th & 9th You don’t have to buy but it’s great to look! Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology A shipment of…

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R.I.P. mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…

R.I.P.

Hard to believe that the time has flowed so quickly, but today marks five years since we locked the doors on the Seattle Mystery Bookshop as an operating business for the last time. Sure, there was…

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September 2022 mysteryish.wordpress.com/202…
September 2022

September 2022

Following the attack on Salman Rushdie, his books are leading the bestseller lists. Kentucky’s flood-affected bookstores need your help. Attention book lovers: your dream job is hiring again. How D…

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Seattle Mystery Bookshop

“In the early 1950s Avon Books created the VendAvon, a coin-operated book vending machine, found in airports, hospitals, and ferry terminals. Avon installed 210 machines, each containing 24 o…

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