Uncle Edgar’s Gets Its Stock in Order

Last month we brought you the happy news that Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore and Uncle Edgar’s Mystery Bookstore, twin Minneapolis institutions that had burned down in May 2020, were open once more. Now comes word, via blogger Bill Selnes, that Uncles proprietor Don Blyly is “getting close to having all the used mystery trade paperback[s] listed on Abebooks.com and put out on our shelves. There are currently about 1,500 used mystery trade paperbacks on the shelves,” Blyly explains in an update, “and we hope in the next couple of weeks to finish listing the rest of our current stock, and then be able to start buying mystery trade paperbacks. It will be a lot longer before we will be able to start buying used mystery hardcovers (but we can still accept donations and put them in the basement for a while if you have to clear some out of your home or storage locker).” Meanwhile, new signage and awnings are finally going up on the outside of the Uncles’ new building.

Past updates can be found on the Uncles’ GoFundMe page.