The first Daunt Books shop was in Marylebone High Street, now one of central London's chichier thoroughfares.
Five men linked to the Causeway Bay Books shop in the former British colony have vanished since mid-October, in southern China, Thailand and, last week, Hong Kong.
If the historical side of the illusionary arts are more your cup of tea, head to the nearby Teatre Museu, where there's a permanent collection of magical objects, books, shop archives, and regular magic shows.
So in 1984, when Eduardo J. Padrón, the president of Miami Dade College, asked Mitchell Kaplan, owner of the fledgling Books & Books shop in Coral Gables, to help him start a book fair in Miami's downtown area, the preferred ZIP code for prostitutes and vagrants, quixotic was a polite term for their vision.
What has happened to the five men has profoundly shaken Hong Kong's book trade: Gui Minhai, owner of the Mighty Current publishing house and the Causeway Bay Books shop, remains in detention in mainland China after having disappeared from his holiday house in Thailand in October 2015, only to reappear in a tearful televised confession in January 2016.
The three men – Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam whog-kee, werewere linked to the Causeway Bay Books shop – had had "criminal compulsory measures" imposed on them, Chinese police in the southern province of Guangdong told Hong Kong police.
