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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

    • Golden Age Whodunits

      Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2024

      Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre

    • Golden Age Whodunits

      Otto Penzler

      E Book

      Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre

    • Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop

      Otto Penzler

      Hardback, 2024

      Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City’s beloved mystery bookstore

    • Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop

      Otto Penzler

      E Book

      Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City’s beloved mystery bookstore

    • Golden Age Christmas Mysteries

      Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2025

      Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler selects Christmas-themed mysteries from the American authors active during the genre’s Golden Age, including stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart, John...

    • Golden Age Christmas Mysteries

      Otto Penzler

      E Book

      Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler selects Christmas-themed mysteries from the American authors active during the genre’s Golden Age, including stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart, John...

    • Death from a Top Hat: A Great Merlini Mystery

      Clayton Rawson, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists.

    • The Red Lamp

      Mary Roberts Rinehart, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      A professor tries to stop a murder spree, uncertain whether the culprit is man or ghost.

    • Home Sweet Homicide

      Craig Rice, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      The children of a mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers

    • The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan

      Stuart Palmer, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2019

      After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer.

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