Murder One was a bookshop in the Charing Cross Road from 1988 to 2009, "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][5][6] The shop exists as a mail-order business, owned by a previous employee of the Murder One shop, Tanya Stone. Although the website was closed down, the business continues as a mail order business sending out PDFs of its quarterly crime catalogue. Murder One UK Ltd can be contacted by email.
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