Ellen Brown, who owns the Old Tampa Book Company on Tampa St. with her husband David, is more curious than concerned about what someone was looking for.
“They came in through the old abandoned building behind us, dug a small hole through that building’s old bathroom and into ours and somehow squeezed into the bookstore. I call them the Hole in the Wall Gang, but whoever they were they must have been awfullysmall. I could never squeeze through that opening.’‘
The police showed up but nothing seemed to be missing, although the store has over 40,000 books. “It would have had to have been a short story to get through that hole,’’ Brown says.