Charles Perry
@charlesperry.bsky.social
Publisher at Mysterious Press, Scarlet, and American Mystery Classics. Social media user at Mysterious Bookshop.
Interesting safe at an apartment I just visited cc: @tommeadauthor.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Interesting safe at an apartment I just visited cc: @tommeadauthor.bsky.social
What is the name for the heavy, repetitive, mostly instrumental, trance-like bachata (or maybe merengue?) that plays loud out of car windows on south streets in Williamsburg? Any artists/DJs known for this style?
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What is the name for the heavy, repetitive, mostly instrumental, trance-like bachata (or maybe merengue?) that plays loud out of car windows on south streets in Williamsburg? Any artists/DJs known for this style?
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JUST ANNOUNCED:
An Evening with Writer, Director, and Producer @rianjohnson.bsky.social
“Mystery Fiction and the Knives Out movies”
The Mysterious Bookshop, 12/10, 7 PM
58 Warren St., NYC
Tickets/details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/an-...
An Evening with Writer, Director, and Producer @rianjohnson.bsky.social
“Mystery Fiction and the Knives Out movies”
The Mysterious Bookshop, 12/10, 7 PM
58 Warren St., NYC
Tickets/details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/an-...
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
JUST ANNOUNCED:
An Evening with Writer, Director, and Producer @rianjohnson.bsky.social
“Mystery Fiction and the Knives Out movies”
The Mysterious Bookshop, 12/10, 7 PM
58 Warren St., NYC
Tickets/details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/an-...
An Evening with Writer, Director, and Producer @rianjohnson.bsky.social
“Mystery Fiction and the Knives Out movies”
The Mysterious Bookshop, 12/10, 7 PM
58 Warren St., NYC
Tickets/details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/an-...
View from the playground
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
View from the playground
I looked up at my father and said, “What happened, Daddy?” My father had a faraway look in his eyes and he said, “Son, you were hit on the head with a cow.”
October 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I looked up at my father and said, “What happened, Daddy?” My father had a faraway look in his eyes and he said, “Son, you were hit on the head with a cow.”
It’s crazy to me that he’s actually doing this
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s crazy to me that he’s actually doing this
Funny how NYC halal carts have regional styles for gyro wrapping: uptown style, half wrapped in foil with the gyro exposed, fork stuck in, and downtown style, full foil wrap. Unsure where the line is exactly that separates the two.
October 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Funny how NYC halal carts have regional styles for gyro wrapping: uptown style, half wrapped in foil with the gyro exposed, fork stuck in, and downtown style, full foil wrap. Unsure where the line is exactly that separates the two.
Check out this destroyed quarter I got
October 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Check out this destroyed quarter I got
Seeing K read at Columbia in 2014 remains a memorable experience. The author entered a packed room on the 18th floor with breathtaking views of upper Manhattan, closed the blinds one by one until there was total darkness, flicked on a small reading light at the podium, and read Animalinside in full
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Seeing K read at Columbia in 2014 remains a memorable experience. The author entered a packed room on the 18th floor with breathtaking views of upper Manhattan, closed the blinds one by one until there was total darkness, flicked on a small reading light at the podium, and read Animalinside in full
This is the front room at Spain bar now 😢
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is the front room at Spain bar now 😢
Logging into twitter after not using it for months and it’s just an endless screed of anti-Mamdani content. I bet this is what it felt like to use twitter in PA before 2024 election
October 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Logging into twitter after not using it for months and it’s just an endless screed of anti-Mamdani content. I bet this is what it felt like to use twitter in PA before 2024 election
Looking at John F Peto paintings and wondering if they inspired Raymond Hawkey’s Len Deighton covers
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Looking at John F Peto paintings and wondering if they inspired Raymond Hawkey’s Len Deighton covers
An early advertisement for the Doubleday Crime Club which explains the logo, among other things
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An early advertisement for the Doubleday Crime Club which explains the logo, among other things
They're calling it one of the most 1970s-looking movie posters of the 1970s
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
They're calling it one of the most 1970s-looking movie posters of the 1970s
Had to walk around an impromptu Ed Sheeran concert to get to the playground
September 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Had to walk around an impromptu Ed Sheeran concert to get to the playground
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Got the most glorious book mail today! My contributor’s copy of THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR, edited by Otto Penzler and John Grisham.
Thank you, @mysteriousbookshop.com. Y’all made my year!
Thank you, @mysteriousbookshop.com. Y’all made my year!
August 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Got the most glorious book mail today! My contributor’s copy of THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR, edited by Otto Penzler and John Grisham.
Thank you, @mysteriousbookshop.com. Y’all made my year!
Thank you, @mysteriousbookshop.com. Y’all made my year!
Legitimately excited for this kids book found at a thrift shop
August 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Legitimately excited for this kids book found at a thrift shop
Huge book dump in the middle of the aisle in target is crazy… not sure I’ve seen that before
August 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Huge book dump in the middle of the aisle in target is crazy… not sure I’ve seen that before
Such a disappointing building
August 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Such a disappointing building
Frederic Dorr Steele sketch for an HC Bailey cover
August 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Frederic Dorr Steele sketch for an HC Bailey cover
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Hey folks, we’re hiring a managing editor here at Mysterious Enterprises/Penzler Publishers. See below for a view of our picturesque offices. More details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/pages/job-op...
August 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hey folks, we’re hiring a managing editor here at Mysterious Enterprises/Penzler Publishers. See below for a view of our picturesque offices. More details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/pages/job-op...
Hundred year old Raffles card games that I saw this evening
August 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Hundred year old Raffles card games that I saw this evening
Designed this cover for The Glass Eel and the finished copies came out even better than I hoped. Hard to photograph but the lettering is matte against the gloss of the background image
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Designed this cover for The Glass Eel and the finished copies came out even better than I hoped. Hard to photograph but the lettering is matte against the gloss of the background image
The Fall 1930 Dutton catalog, which introduced the Dutton Clue Mystery line to retailers
August 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Fall 1930 Dutton catalog, which introduced the Dutton Clue Mystery line to retailers
Looking like our biggest book club turnout to date tomorrow
Sunday afternoon rereading Golden Age Whodunits in advance of our online book club Zoom with Otto Penzler tomorrow evening, 7 PM. Email charles@mysteriousbookshop.com if you’d like to join!
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Looking like our biggest book club turnout to date tomorrow