Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives. Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977, and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994, and the Raven—the group's highest non-writing award—in 2003.
Books
The Big Book of Espionage
2020
Murder Is My Racquet
Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers
2002
The Locked-Room Mysteries
2014
Murder and Obsession
1999
In Pursuit of Spenser
Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero
2012
101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense
2000
Detectionary
1971
The Greatest Mysteries of All Time
1996
Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
2024
Mysterious Obsession
2019
Kwik Krimes
2013
Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
1976
The Great Detectives
1978
Murder for Love
Murder for Men
1996
Mark Twain's Medieval Romance
And Other Classic Mystery Stories
2006
Dead Man's Hand
2007
Black Noir
Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
2009
Jack the Ripper
2012
Best American Crime Writing
2002
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