It is now the oldest and largest mystery specialist bookstore in the world.
Penzler founded The Mysterious Bookshop in mid-town Manhattan and after twenty-seven years moved to Tribeca. Westlake, Ellery Queen, Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, Charlotte MacLeod and many others. In 2011, he founded, a publishing house devoted to electronic books featuring such authors as James Ellroy, Donald E. He reacquired The Mysterious Press name from Hachette in 2009 it was an imprint at Grove Atlantic until 2021, when it became an independent imprint as part of Penzler Publishers.
He also established the Otto Penzler Books imprint in London, first with Quercus, then with Atlantic/Corvus, now with Head of Zeus. He moved the imprint to Carroll & Graf, then to Harcourt (later Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The Mysterious Book Club became a division of the Book of the Month Club and Mysterious Audios an imprint with Dove Audio.Īfter selling The Mysterious Press to Warner Books in 1989, he created an Otto Penzler Books imprint for Macmillan (later Scribner). In the 1980s it was publishing more than 100 books a year and the imprint was affiliated with major publishers in England (Century-Hutchinson-Arrow), Japan (Hayakwa Publishing), Italy (Mondadori) and Sweden (Bra Bocker). Keating, Peter Lovesey, Ed McBain, Ross Macdonald, Marcia Muller, Ellis Peters, Ruth Rendell, Mickey Spillane, Ross Thomas, Donald E. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jerome Charyn, Len Deighton, Stanley Ellin, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, P. Among the authors it published (works published in America for the first time, not reprints) are Eric Ambler, Kingsley Amis, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, James M. He founded The Mysterious Press, a publishing house devoted entirely to mystery and crime fiction, in 1975. He has worked with authors including Elmore Leonard, Nelson DeMille, Joyce Carol Oates, Sue Grafton, Mary Higgins Clark, Stanley Ellin, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke and Thomas H. For The New York Sun, he wrote The Crime Scene, a popular weekly mystery fiction column that ran for five years. He also wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense (2000).
He is the co-author the "Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection" for which he won an Edgar Award in 1977. Penzler graduated from the University of Michigan, having studied English literature. Biography īorn in Germany to a German-American mother and a German father, Penzler moved to The Bronx at age five after the death of his father. Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is a German-born American editor of mystery fiction, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. The Mysterious Bookshop, Penzler Publishers
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