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    Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

    Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

    Books by Otto Penzler

    • A Taste for Honey

      H. F. Heard, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      In the countryside of Victorian England, a recluse and a beekeeper team up to catch a cunning villain.

    • The Unsuspected

      Charlotte Armstrong, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role

    • The Dutch Shoe Mystery: An Ellery Queen Mystery

      Ellery Queen, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      After a wealthy woman is strangled in a hospital full of relatives and friends, Ellery Queen searches for her deadly enemy.

    • The So Blue Marble

      Dorothy B. Hughes, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      Three well-heeled villains terrorize New York’s high society in pursuit of a rare and powerful gem

    • The Mad Hatter Mystery

      John Dickson Carr, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor

    • The Siamese Twin Mystery

      Ellery Queen, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2020

      Ellery Queen takes refuge from a wildfire at a remote mountain house — and arrives just before the owner is murdered...

    • The Haunted Lady

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2020

      Someone’s trying to kill the head of the Fairbanks estate, and only her nurse can protect her.

    • The Case of the Baited Hook: A Perry Mason Mystery

      Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2020

      In one of Perry Mason’s most memorable cases ever, the character who inspired the HBO limited series risks his freedom to prove the innocence of an unidentified client.

    • A Puzzle for Fools: A Peter Duluth Mystery

      Patrick Quentin, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2020

      A wave of murders rocks a sanitarium—and it's up to the patients to stop them

    • The Haunted Lady

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2020

      Someone’s trying to kill the head of the Fairbanks estate, and only her nurse can protect her.

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