SF Bookstore Closes After an Eighty-Five Year Run

The audience of maybe 100 or so gathered just after noon Wednesday at Stacey’s Bookstore on Market Street leaned forward, rapt, transported to Paris on the wings of words. Author Cara Black, the San Francisco mystery novelist was doing her ninth – and last – reading at Stacey’s.

The big, handsome store is closing after 85 years in San Francisco, 50 years in the same location.