JM> Now what do we do with the books by McCrumb which are 
 JM> neither mystery or SF?
I don't have a good answer for you, but a similar situation is why all my 
paperbacks are filed alphabetically by author, regardless of genre.  It was 
Madeleine L'Engle who was the final straw for me.
  
I had the children's books in one place, the mainstream in another, and the 
SF (by far the largest category) in a third.  When I realized that I had one 
series by her that started out as with children's books, but continued into 
adult, and SF-flavored adult at that, I gave up.
  
It leads to some interesting juxtapositions, but mostly it works.  I can't 
really recommend it for a bookstore, though.  Maybe just put all the McCrumb 
together in mystery, since she mostly appeals to mystery readers, the same 
way Borders files books about or related to an author's 
fiction writing with the author's titles?
--- Sirius 1.0ya
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