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Great things come in small packages: Id like to think that describes the Mystery Bookstore best. I opened my doors more than five years ago, and I am still a one-person operation – exactly how I like it. I am on a first name basis with most of my customers, and I know their likes and dislikes. I dont pretend to know everything there is to know in the mystery field, but I know where to get answers when someone asks me a question I cant answer right off the top of my head. I do all of the day-to-day tasks, and I know my store inside out. Requests and information don’t get lost in the hierarchy because there is no hierarchy. My single most important task is satisfying the needs of my customers, not catering to the whims of a store manager, district manager, someone in Home Office who has never assisted a real customer or anyone else of that ilk. And I am never too busy with other things to chat. I come from a long line of bookaholics. My mother’s mother worked in the book department at Strawbridges, a Philadelphia department store, when there were no shopping malls and respectable books only appeared in hardback. My father’s mother taught school for over thirty years. Both my mother and my aunt started out in the classroom before moving into the library. Twelve years ago, I got my first job in a bookstore – working part time in one of the chains. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I was being PAID to work in a bookstore. Gradually, though, I realized that the chain and I had a large philosophical difference as to what books and bookselling are all about. So, with the idea in mind that there had to be a better way, I quit the chain and opened my own store. The Mystery Bookstore operates on the belief that book people (aka customers) know what they like. They don’t appreciate having the latest bestseller crammed down their throats in lieu of the book they really came in to buy. Book people want to browse, to touch, to consider, at their leisure. They want to ask questions. They want the first two books in a series, not just the one that came out last week. They want to talk to a bookseller who has actually read a book or two. I hope I’ve created a place where book people feel at home.

 

Telephone: 1-402-342-7343
Website: http://www.mysterybookstore.ws/store/