he owned an antiquarian bookstore in the french quarter , on chartres street , specializing in books on music , especially operas there were always phonograph records of caruso playing in the store , and llewellyn , who invariably sat at a desk to the rear of the shop , was always dressed in a suit and tie it was a bequest from julien which had enabled him to own the building , where he also lived in the second floor flat , and he worked in his shop until one month before his death in .