Partners & Crime

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We started reading mysteries in earnest while preparing for a trip to Iceland. Looking for someone in addition to Halldor Laxness who might tell us about life on that volcanic island, we discovered Arnaldur IndriĆ°ason; before a trip to Barcelona, we found Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, and suddenly we had another item on our standrad pre-vacation to-do list: find and read the best mysteries set wherever we're headed. And that --- rather than linking to our vacation photos --- brings us to the point of this post.
  
It wasn't long before we discovered Partners & Crime, the best bookstore in the city for all things detective. Located in Greenwich Village, the bookstore only sells mysteries, thrillers, spy novels, and detective stories, in a slightly threadbare below-sidewalk space. A handful of comfortable chairs, an in-store library, a knowledgeable and passionate staff, and a cheerfully idiosyncratic shelving system ("The Cheese Factor," "Murder and Mayhem," "Exotic Locales") is about as inviting a combination as we can imagine. If they had a cat, we'd probably never leave.
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Howard said…
interesting mission. what are some well-known indian mysteries?
Why, thank you for asking: Paul Mann has three novels starring the dashing Inspector George Sansi, half-Indian, half-British, all man. H.R.F. Keating wrote about the earnest Inspector Ghote for ten (or so) years before he (Keating) even set foot on the subcontinent --- then wrote many more books afterward, charming, almost prudish, and adorable stories of the Bombay police force. In terms of one-offs, there's Six Suspects, by Vikas Swarup, who wrote the novel on which Slumdog Millionaires was based, and Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra, which is just about the awesomest mystery we've read yet. Got any recommendations?
Howard said…
No, I left the comment because I was looking for some recs.

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