Mysterious press bookshop new york

Bookstore and publisher in New York City

The Mysterious Bookshop is an independent bookstore and publisher specializing in mystery fiction, located in New York City. It is one of the oldest mystery bookstores in the U.S.

In addition to housing its own imprint, the shop contains the offices of Penzler Publishers, an independent publishing house consisting of the imprints The Mysterious Press, Scarlet, American Mystery Classics, and Crime Ink, all distributed by W.W. Norton. The shop is also home to MysteriousPress.com, an e-book imprint distributed by Open Road Integrated Media. The store and its various publishing enterprises are owned and operated by editor and publisher Otto Penzler; its inventory consists of new and rare titles in detective fiction, crime fiction, spy fiction, thrillers, and various other mystery fiction subgenres. The store also features the largest collection of Sherlock Holmes titles and Sherlockiana in the world, as well as a considerable Bibliomystery collection.

History

The Mysterious Bookshop opened on Friday 13 April 1979. In 2005, after 25 years at 129 West 56th Street, the building that housed the bookshop was sold, forcing the store to relocate to the Tribeca neighborhood. It is now located at 58 Warren Street.

Publishing

The Mysterious Bookshop publishes limited editions of important works in the mystery genre, and has published various series of original works in the field. The most current of these is the store's Bibliomystery series, which features mystery novellas in which the plot involves a murder related to books or book collecting. Bestselling authors contributing to this series have included Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Nelson DeMille. John Connolly's story, "The Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository", won the 2014 Edgar Award for best short story. These books are published in both

American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction

The Mysterious Press is an American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction based in New York City. The company has been associated with various publishing companies, most recently with Grove Atlantic, where it was an imprint from 2011 to 2019. As of January 1, 2020, it became an independent imprint as part of Penzler Publishers. The offices of the Mysterious Press are located within The Mysterious Bookshop.

History

Mysterious Press was founded in 1975 by Otto Penzler, and was one of the first genre publishers to use materials such as acid-free paper, full-cloth bindings, and full-color dust jackets. Many of the books it published were done in both trade and limited editions. In 1989, the company was sold to Warner Books, which was bought by Hachette in 2005. Penzler re-acquired the Mysterious Press name in 2011 and it became an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, Inc., though without publication rights to any of the previous imprint's back titles. In 2020, Mysterious Press became fully independent as part of Penzler Publishers, distributed by W. W. Norton & Company. Mysterious Press has also partnered with Open Road Integrated Media since 2011 for ebooks.

In its earliest days, Mysterious Press published works by Cornell Woolrich, Ross Macdonald, and Isaac Asimov. It went on to publish Maxwell Grant, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, Kingsley Amis, and Eric Ambler, among others.

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Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975. The imprint was devoted to printing the best mystery, crime and suspense books, using fine paper and top dust jacket artists.

It went on to publish such best-selling authors as James Ellroy, P.D. James, Donald E. Westlake, Eric Ambler, Ross Macdonald, Isaac Asimov, Ed McBain, Kingsley Amis and Elmore Leonard, both in hardcover and paperback.

Today, The Mysterious Press exists in two forms.

MysteriousPress.com

Working in conjunction withOpen Road Integrated Media,MysteriousPress.comis converting previously-published works to eBook formats, from notable authors like James Ellroy, Donald Westlake, Ross Thomas, Brian Garfield and Christianna Brand, among others. The press is also publishing original novels by previously-published authors and talented newcomers, some of which are available as print editions. Visit thewebsiteto see all the books the press has to offer.

The Mysterious Press

An imprint of our in-house publishing company, Penzler Publishers, The Mysterious Press is home to authors including Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Perry, David Gordon, and many more authors. Learn more on the Mysterious Press page of the Penzler Publishers website.