“But after I got over the business of now being a book buyer, I felt sort of good asking the question, as if I were a man of wealth and education, a dignified chap, pursuing things intellectual, hunting down a book instead of a crook.”
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Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo
Just a reminder, fellow booksellers, that the next person you wait on could well be a professional hit man (don’t worry about the amateurs) in the midst of a mid-career crisis…