"There's something about a blood-spattered sign"

Congratulations to I Love a Mystery, Mission, Kan., which has been chosen as Best Mysterious Place by Kansas City Pitch Weekly.

The weekly said, in part, "Independent bookstores on the Kansas and Missouri sides have been struggling over the past few years, but I Love a Mystery has done so well that it had to expand a year ago.

That's not only because of its exhaustive selection of mysteries, thrillers and the like--it's just a fun place. There's something about a blood-spattered sign, randomly laid daggers and a copious number of skeletons that warms your heart the way Halloween did when you were young enough to trick-or-treat.

And the Victorian library setting is just where you'd expect to find a corpse with a caved-in skull and a bloody candlestick on the floor. The atmosphere is put to good use during the store's events, which include book clubs, a weekly game of Clue and regular visits by authors."

...not the least of which is our own Eric Stone who'll be there on 10/19!


I will be in Kansas on 9/20/08 for the Kansas Mystery Writers conference.

The last time I was in Kansas, a house fell on me. Let's hope things improve now that the girl who stole my ruby slippers has gone off to meet the Wizard.