Peril in Paperback: A Bibliophile Mystery

place in the Mission.”
    “Really?” I shouldn’t have been surprised. The Mission District was the latest San Francisco neighborhood to succumb to gentrification. All the coolest new restaurants and the hippest boutiques were sprouting up daily along Valencia Avenue and Eighteenth Street.
    I tried not to make a face, but I was dismayed to know that I would soon be sharing my beloved city with the likes of him. There was nothing I could do about it, though. Savannah seemed happy, and I had to admit that the trendy-but-rough-around-the-edges Mission District was an ideal location for an opportunistic bad boy like Baxter Cromwell to make a killing.