The Mysterious Bookshop
@mysteriousbookshop.com
The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
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Amen
if you can find his story “Cockfighter,” grab a beer and find a quiet corner
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Amen
Otto Penzler, the master of modern mysteries, has another holiday story collection www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/b...
Book review: Otto Penzler, the master of modern mysteries, has another holiday story collection
Otto Penzler has had a long career as a publisher, editor, bookstore proprietor, and is surely our leading authority on the mystery genre. He’s also a big fan of Christmas. His Manhattan bookstore, Th...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Otto Penzler, the master of modern mysteries, has another holiday story collection www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/b...
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Heads up! We’ll be closing early next Wednesday and all day on Thursday, so act now to get your turkey day murder mysteries lined up.
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Heads up! We’ll be closing early next Wednesday and all day on Thursday, so act now to get your turkey day murder mysteries lined up.
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
Heads up! We’ll be closing early next Wednesday and all day on Thursday, so act now to get your turkey day murder mysteries lined up.
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Heads up! We’ll be closing early next Wednesday and all day on Thursday, so act now to get your turkey day murder mysteries lined up.
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
New arrivals here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
The verdict is in: A CHRISTMAS WITNESS by @charlestodauthor.bsky.social is officially “readworthy”: www.bookbub.com/readworthy/b...
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The verdict is in: A CHRISTMAS WITNESS by @charlestodauthor.bsky.social is officially “readworthy”: www.bookbub.com/readworthy/b...
Don’t tell me how to stack
My god....asymmetrical book stacking...
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Don’t tell me how to stack
Nice pile o’ Willeford on the cataloging desk today
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Nice pile o’ Willeford on the cataloging desk today
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Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
Staff picks Wednesday with store manager Ryan! Check the alt text for his thoughts on James Lee Burke
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Staff picks Wednesday with store manager Ryan! Check the alt text for his thoughts on James Lee Burke
Noirvember at American Mystery Classics: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Noirvember at American Mystery Classics: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
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My goodness but I love that bookshop.
Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My goodness but I love that bookshop.
Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Well folks, our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookstore of 2025 is nearing its end. Anything we should do before the title passes on to another deserving bookseller?
Jack Viertel discusses THE GLASS EEL with Barbara Peters of @poisonedpen.bsky.social. Watch:
J.J. Viertel discusses The Glass Eel
J.J. Viertel discusses The Glass Eel, a story exploring the hidden trade of baby eels in Maine and its impact on both people and the environment. The book follows…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Jack Viertel discusses THE GLASS EEL with Barbara Peters of @poisonedpen.bsky.social. Watch:
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Tell me what crime fiction you are looking forward to reading next year because I have to start thinking about that again
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Tell me what crime fiction you are looking forward to reading next year because I have to start thinking about that again
Mysterious Press cover for a 1984 issue of Publishers Weekly
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Mysterious Press cover for a 1984 issue of Publishers Weekly
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Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
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Goodness, this lot of Hammond Sax covers up for auction: connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/a...
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Goodness, this lot of Hammond Sax covers up for auction: connect.invaluable.com/sydneybook/a...
Catch up on James Comey’s career as a crime writer by ordering FDR DRIVE (his best mystery yet), here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/jam...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Catch up on James Comey’s career as a crime writer by ordering FDR DRIVE (his best mystery yet), here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/jam...
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The titular dead man
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The titular dead man
In which @adrianmckinty.bsky.social visits Cornell Woolrich’s old apartment at the Marseilles crimereads.com/cornell-wool...
Woolrich’s Window: Adrian McKinty on Visiting the Apartment of a Noir Master
Cornell Woolrich occupies a singular place in American crime fiction—a writer whose work, suffused with paranoia, fatalism, and longing, defined much of the mood and atmosphere of mid-twentieth-cen…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
In which @adrianmckinty.bsky.social visits Cornell Woolrich’s old apartment at the Marseilles crimereads.com/cornell-wool...
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Makes me wish I collected Van Dine so I’d have a reason to buy it
Here’s some very cool ephemera with extremely niche appeal: American Magazine insert advertising S. S. Van Dine’s THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Makes me wish I collected Van Dine so I’d have a reason to buy it
The lineup at the bookshop’s 1985 Edgar Awards celebration is the stuff of legends
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The lineup at the bookshop’s 1985 Edgar Awards celebration is the stuff of legends