Otto Penzler

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Golden Age Detective Stories

Otto Penzler

The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the eraSometimes, the police aren’t the best suited to solve a crime. Depending on the case, you may find that a retired magician, a schoolteache...

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Published: Jul 2021

The Best American Mystery Stories 200...

Otto Penzler

The acclaimed author of Presumed Innocent serves as guest editor for this new collection of the outstanding mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, James Lee B...

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Published: Oct 2006

Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop

Otto Penzler

Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and give...

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Published: Oct 2011

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time...

Otto Penzler

Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every home library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers. With c...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry...

Otto Penzler

When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime\n\nPlague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman’s assistant Lo...

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Published: Feb 2021

Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in ...

Otto Penzler

Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the “biblio-mysteries" in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre’s most distinguished authors: Ken Bruen, Loren D. Estleman, Nelson DeMille, Anne Perry, Jeff...

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Published: Aug 2018

Bibliomysteries: Volume Two: Stories ...

Otto Penzler

Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the "bibliomysteries" in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre's most distinguished authors: Ian Rankin, Thomas Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott...

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Published: Dec 2019

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspe...

Otto Penzler

The best mystery and crime fiction ever produced by African-American writers.

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Published: Feb 2009

Golden Age Bibliomysteries (An Americ...

Otto Penzler

In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death Of crime fiction’s many subgenres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the “bibliomystery.” These are stories that involve crimes set, so...

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Published: Jul 2023

Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

Otto Penzler

Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period’s purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a cor...

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Published: Jul 2022

Mark Twain's "Medeival Romance": And ...

Otto Penzler

A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain.Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continua...

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Published: Nov 2012

The American Gun Mystery: An Ellery Q...

Otto Penzler

Ellery Queen investigates a murder at the circus rodeo When a washed up Hollywood cowboy-turned-circus rodeo actor is shot dead in the midst of his performance at a New York sports-palace, in front of thousands of onlookers, it seems...

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Published: Oct 2021

The Best American Mystery Stories 201...

Otto Penzler

"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn't take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart o...

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Published: Oct 2004

The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime...

Otto Penzler

The first anthology ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.

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Published: Jun 2012

The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crim...

Otto Penzler

A great recurring character in a fictional series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sl...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the ...

Otto Penzler

Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T.C. Boyle. In his introduction to this volume, guest editor Amor Towles pays tribute to the forgotten person of the ...

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Published: Sep 2023

Uncertain Endings: Literature's Great...

Otto Penzler

The most intriguing riddle mysteries in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and TwainTantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come...

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Published: Aug 2008
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