Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is a well-known Americanpublisher and editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives. It is one of the oldest mystery specialist bookstores in America. Penzler wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense (2000). At this time he writes The Crime Scene, a weekly column in the New York Sun newspaper. He has worked with several prolific authors over the years including Jonathan Kellerman and the late Patricia Highsmith, the latter of whom he fell out with after he omitted a tribute to the Palestinean people in one of her books, to which she responded by claiming that "he stood in my because he's a Jew".
The Armchair Detective Library. Reprints classic crime fiction for collectors and libraries.
The Mysterious Press. Established in 1975. Sold to Time/Warner in 1989.
The Armchair Detective. A quarterly journal for studies of mystery and suspense fiction (17 years).
Series Editor
The Best American Mystery Stories. Annual series since 1997, with guest editors. Writer Robert B. Parker wrote "Otto Penzler knows more about crime fiction than most people know about anything, and proves it once more in this brilliant anthology."
The Best American Crime Writing. Annual series since 2002, with Thomas H. Cook and guest editors.
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