About Otto Penzler
Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Mr. Penzler was the founder of The Mysterious Press, which has now become part of the Warner publishing empire; he also created the publishing firm of Otto Penzler Books, which is now an imprint at Carroll & Graf, and The Armchair Detective Library, a publishing house devoted to reprinting classic crime fiction for the collector and library markets.
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Anthology series
Anthologies edited
Whodunit? Houdini?: Thirteen Tales of Magic, Murder and Mystery (1977)
The Private Lives of Private Eyes (1985)
Murder for Love (1996)
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) (with Robert B Parker)
Murder for Revenge (1998)
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998)
The Best American Mystery Stories: 1998 (1998) (with Sue Grafton)
Criminal Records (1999)
Murder and Obsession (1999)
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999) (with Ed McBain)
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) (with Tony Hillerman)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (2000) (with Donald E Westlake)
Criminal Records Volume Two (2000)
Murderers' Row: Baseball Mysteries (2001)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) (with Lawrence Block)
The Mighty Johns (2002)
The Best American Crime Writing (2002) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) (with James Ellroy)
Murder at the Foul Line: Original Basketball Mysteries (2003)
The Best American Crime Writing 2003: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting (2003) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) (with Michael Connelly)
One Clue Beyond: Tales of Supernatural Suspense, Psychic Puzzles and Occult Investigators (2003) (with Michele Slung)
The Best American Mystery Stories 3 (2004) (with James Ellroy)
The Best American Crime Writing 2004 (2004) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (2004) (with Nelson DeMille)
Murder on the Ropes (2004)
Murder Is My Racquet (2004)
Dangerous Women (2005)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) (with Joyce Carol Oates)
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005) (with James Ellroy)
Murder at the Racetrack: Original Tales of Mystery and Mayhem Down the Final Stretch from Today's Great Writers (2006)
Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today's Great Writers (2006)
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (2006) (with Mark Bowden)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) (with Scott Turow)
Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction At the Poker Table (2007)
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: Forty-Five of the Best Stories to Come Out of the Pulps During Their Golden Age (2007)
Uncertain Endings: The World's Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories (2007)
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) (with George Pelecanos)
The Private Lives of Private Eyes (1985)
Murder for Love (1996)
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) (with Robert B Parker)
Murder for Revenge (1998)
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998)
The Best American Mystery Stories: 1998 (1998) (with Sue Grafton)
Criminal Records (1999)
Murder and Obsession (1999)
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999) (with Ed McBain)
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) (with Tony Hillerman)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2000 (2000) (with Donald E Westlake)
Criminal Records Volume Two (2000)
Murderers' Row: Baseball Mysteries (2001)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) (with Lawrence Block)
The Mighty Johns (2002)
The Best American Crime Writing (2002) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002) (with James Ellroy)
Murder at the Foul Line: Original Basketball Mysteries (2003)
The Best American Crime Writing 2003: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting (2003) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) (with Michael Connelly)
One Clue Beyond: Tales of Supernatural Suspense, Psychic Puzzles and Occult Investigators (2003) (with Michele Slung)
The Best American Mystery Stories 3 (2004) (with James Ellroy)
The Best American Crime Writing 2004 (2004) (with Thomas H Cook)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (2004) (with Nelson DeMille)
Murder on the Ropes (2004)
Murder Is My Racquet (2004)
Dangerous Women (2005)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) (with Joyce Carol Oates)
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005) (with James Ellroy)
Murder at the Racetrack: Original Tales of Mystery and Mayhem Down the Final Stretch from Today's Great Writers (2006)
Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today's Great Writers (2006)
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (2006) (with Mark Bowden)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) (with Scott Turow)
Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction At the Poker Table (2007)
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: Forty-Five of the Best Stories to Come Out of the Pulps During Their Golden Age (2007)
Uncertain Endings: The World's Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories (2007)
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) (with George Pelecanos)
Non fiction
Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (1976) (with Chris Steinbrunner)
The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time (1995) (with Mickey Friedman)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007) (with Linda Fairstein)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2008) (with Thomas H Cook, Jonathan Kellerman)
The Crown Crime Companion: The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time (1995) (with Mickey Friedman)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (2007) (with Linda Fairstein)
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 (2008) (with Thomas H Cook, Jonathan Kellerman)
Links to other websites
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Otto Penzler recommends
 The 25th Hour (2001) David Benioff "The 25th Hour is a wonderfully written first novel . . .[a] brilliant and disturbing story." |
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