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Mysterious Bookshop

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2 years

Open 11-7 today for anyone smug and middle class enough to want to buy a book

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4 years

Happy Independent Bookstore Day, everybody! We’ll be here observing this wonderful occasion until 7 PM

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2 years

This tweet got over one thousand hearts so I am obligated to post a photo of the shop as well as our web address:

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6 years

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5 years

Seen on vacation in Northern California @Connellybooks

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1 year

The Mysterious Bookshop opened 44 years ago today, on April 13th, 1979. Thank you to our customers for keeping us around!

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2 years

Nice morning visit from our favorite director, @rianjohnson , seen here with store manager Ryan Lee Gilbert

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2 years

It’s been fun having a blue check. Sorry for all the corruption we did with it — we were just trying to sell some books!

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6 years

Managed to snap a few photos during our staff visit last weekend to Otto’s home library—probably the best private collection of mystery fiction in the world

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6 months

The Mysterious Bookshop opened on this day in 1979. Thanks to our wonderful customers for 45 years and counting!!

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1 year

Wishing a very happy birthday to Mysterious Bookshop owner Otto Penzler, born on this day in 1942

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3 years

Happy #IndieBookstoreDay to all who celebrate!

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1 year

Horrible flooding in NYC today (including in my apartment), but relieved to report that our basement offices—most importantly our rare book room—have remained dry. We’re open 11-7 today, stop by if you need to get out of the rain.

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11 months

Nice visit from @RCArmitage this morning to sign copies of GENEVA! These are mostly sold already but one or two remain unclaimed, available here:

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11 months

Michael Connelly stopped by this afternoon to sign several stacks of RESURRECTION WALK, his newest Lincoln Lawyer novel. Grab your autographed copy here:

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7 years

“We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul”—Christopher Morley #WorldBookDay

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3 months

Three shelves of pristine golden age mystery volumes that just arrived at the shop this week

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3 years

If you could have a first edition of any book in the mystery genre, what would you pick? 📚

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3 years

There are currently 6 unrelated customers in the store at one time. NEW YORK IS BACK!!!

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6 years

Happy birthday to us! The bookshop, which opened on #FridayThe13th of April, 1979, turns 39 years old today. Help us celebrate by browsing this list of new arrivals -

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1 year

Exquisitely dry and warm in the bookshop on this ugly #IndependentBookstoreDay morning. Open 11-7 today — come see us!

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3 years

We’re open normal hours today. Reminder that a bookshop is a perfect destination for an outing on a snowy afternoon

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2 years

Happy 80th birthday to store owner Otto Penzler, a man who, over the course of his career, has been friendly with legends like Ellery Queen, John D. MacDonald, Dorothy B. Hughes, Patricia Highsmith, James Crumley, Charles Willeford, P.D. James, Sue Grafton, and many more.

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4 years

How it started How it's going

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6 years

Let it be known that the Mysterious Bookshop staff in no way supports the letter that the Mysterious Bookshop's owner sent to the MWA earlier this week

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10 months

Need an expert’s help with your mystery book shopping? Store owner Otto Penzler will be on the floor today from 2-3, and then from 3-4 in the rare book room downstairs, which will be open to all shoppers. See you then!

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8 months

Overcast and in the 40s has got to be one of the three most ideal weather conditions for bookshop browsing, the other two being sunny and 75 or drizzling in the upper 50s. We’ll be here til 7 today for all your mystery book buying needs. 🌥️📚🕵️‍♂️

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1 year

Wonderful to meet @AnthonyHorowitz in the shop just now. He left behind a pile of assorted signed titles, so stop by soon to get one before they’re gone…

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3 months

Wishing a very happy birthday to store owner Otto Penzler!!

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9 months

These are all of the books we published in 2023 at Penzler Publishers and its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, and American Mystery Classics

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3 years

Picture of the store looking good that I was going to post on Instagram today

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2 years

Just seen on a friend’s instagram page … anyone know how we can stock these t-shirts?

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4 years

🎉 First open-door day of 2021 🎉

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7 months

Incoming massive amount of rare Sherlock Holmes books just arrived in the office

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6 years

Full house to hear Ian Rankin discuss Muriel Spark, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Inspector John Rebus

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5 years

The Mysterious Bookshop opened on this day, April 13th, in 1979. Thanks to our wonderful customers for 40 mysterious years! [Pictured: the storefront at our original location on West 56th St.]

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6 months

The Mysterious Bookshop opened on this day in 1979. Thanks to our wonderful customers for 45 years and counting!!

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3 years

Fun article on the New York Times today about store owner Otto Penzler's house in Connecticut, which once housed his (now sold) collection of 60,000 mystery first editions

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3 years

Next Tuesday (4/13), we will have been in business 42 years! Just wanted to let you all know ahead of time so you’ll be ready to celebrate with us then 🍾🍾🍾

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6 months

There’s Otto, hard at work cataloging the seemingly endless piles of Sherlock Holmes books that have accumulated on the table downstairs

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5 months

Celebrating 20 years of @HardCaseCrime !!!

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1 year

Wonderfully clean and clear air inside the bookshop today, utterly breathable with 100% visibility. Does not make your eyes burn or your throat sore. I’m already looking forward to taking another breath in here. Highly recommended!

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2 years

Benoit Blanc reads CAIN'S JAWBONE in the bathtub

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9 months

Some Japanese mysteries on display

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9 months

Doing some end of year stuff and just came across this picture of jazz legend @RonCarterBass at the shop last spring for our event with @Connellybooks . That’s definitely a photo for the bookshop archive…

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10 months

Open 11-7 today. Come let our well-rested, well-fed booksellers recommend a new mystery for you to read 🦃🕵️‍♂️📚

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4 years

Once you’ve voted, make your way down to Warren Street and pick up a mystery novel or two—there’s no better way to distract yourself from the news for the next few days. We’re here til 7

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Mysterious Bookshop

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1 year

Happy Friday, mystery fans and aficionados!! What’s everyone reading this weekend? Here’s what’s new at the shop:

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2 years

Open 11-5 today for all your last-minute murder mystery needs

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4 years

For all those braving NYC’s anarchist jurisdiction today, we are open from 11 to 7. Stop by and grab a great mystery!

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11 months

Absolutely massive crowd here for @andrewklavan and THE HOUSE OF LOVE AND DEATH! Couldn’t make it? Signed copies available here:

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6 years

How many authors would make a special trip to NYC just to support a bookshop? I can think of one. Thanks, @Connellybooks ! Signed copies of DARK SACRED NIGHT here:

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3 months

OK, this is a first for us: Never have we ever had a signing line that went out the door, let alone one that stretched down the block. Thanks to everyone who came out for @riley_sager last night! And thanks for @jonNothin for documenting this moment…

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4 years

The shop is reopening!

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4 years

Reading weather

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4 years

A year ago today, we closed our doors as NYC entered into lockdown. Endless gratitude to everyone who stuck with us in the dark days that followed ♥️

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3 years

Our copies of THE TURNOUT are now signed. Thanks for stopping by, @meganeabbott !

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3 years

Happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe, who lives on in this moving photo

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4 years

Elmore Leonard was born on this day in 1925, so here’s a photo of him, Walter Mosley, and store owner Otto Penzler in the shop sometime in the early 2010s

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3 months

We recently replaced a few light bulbs and now the store is so bright you need sunglasses inside

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2 years

Reminder that we’re still closed through the end of the week while they shoot a TV show in the store. Check out the new sign they made (since somehow they thought our zip-tied, peeling and rotted sign wasn’t screen-ready)

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2 years

We’re starting to work on our “best mysteries of 2022” lists here at the shop. What books are on yours?

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2 years

It's tough out here for an independent bookseller and publisher of mystery fiction, so as of today, we're expanding the business. Welcome to The Mysterious Bookshop & Grocery!

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10 months

The bookshop on a Friday at Christmastime

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3 years

Early morning visit from Michael Imperioli and @StevenSchirripa , who signed their new book, WOKE UP THIS MORNING: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos. Get one before they’re gone:

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9 months

First edition of an absolute classic of horror fiction on the shelf right now for $125. One of the creepiest books I’ve read…

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2 months

Here’s Otto Penzler from a March 1997 feature in Esquire Japan, pictured in his office at our former location on W 56th St. (described by him as the most beautiful office in New York)

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2 months

For a while in the 90s, @esquirejapan ran the Mysterious Bookshop’s bestseller list

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5 months

It’s Indie Bookstore Day and we are open 11-7!!! Also, check out our upcoming events in the alt text 🕵️‍♂️

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1 year

Nice catching up with @andrewklavan yesterday who signed some early copies of THE HOUSE OF LOVE AND DEATH, his newest Cameron Winter mystery, before its release at the end of the month. Please join us 11/6, 6 PM for a launch event with Klavan! Details:

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11 months

We are loving the new @FXNetworks show, A Murder at the End of the World, and not just because a bit of it was filmed at The Mysterious Bookshop. Who else is watching?

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4 years

Re-animated Poe

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4 years

Edgar Allan Poe

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3 months

People seem to be enjoying this and I am too, so here are some other nice covers from the lot

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3 months

Three shelves of pristine golden age mystery volumes that just arrived at the shop this week

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2 years

Wednesday afternoon bookshop view. Stop by and pick up a murder mystery or two to get you to the end of the week

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4 months

Happening now: Walter Mosley reads from FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE, his newest Easy Rawlins mystery

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2 years

Here are all the books we published this year at @PenzlerPub and imprints @MysteriousPress , @ScarletSuspense , and @PenzlerClassics — a huge feat for our staff of four. Thanks so much to the readers, booksellers, librarians, & reviewers out there supporting independent publishing!

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1 month

Well, that’s 500 copies signed in under an hour…

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1 month

Prepping for a stock signing with Lee Child in advance of our event with him next Thursday. Pre-order/event details here:

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2 months

Happy Friday, mystery Twitter! What’s everyone reading this weekend? I’m about halfway through Liz Moore’s newest, THE GOD OF THE WOODS, and savoring it…

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2 months

Check out this very rare Michael @Connellybooks @HarryBoschQuote edition that we just cataloged at the shop 👀 Never seen anything like it before…

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3 years

Agatha Christie and Mother

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6 months

🚨🚨 The Big Sleep with a Robert Mitchum Marlowe cover 🚨🚨

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4 years

Just unearthed some great photos of the bookshop’s original location on W 56th St. Anyone remember this spot??

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2 months

Extra! Extra! There's a new Sherlock Holmes book from Nicholas Meyer coming at the end of August, and he'll be here at the shop 9/9 to help launch it...

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2 years

Celebrating 43 Years of Mysterious Bookselling -

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2 months

Recently discovered these programs for the Mohonk Mountain House & Murder Ink weekends, a mystery fan getaway hosted by Edward Gorey, Isaac Asimov, @StephenKing , and others — Anyone have a time machine I can borrow??

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7 years

Open normal hours today, #BombCyclone be damned!

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6 years

Sophie Hannah’s Hercule Poirot novel, CLOSED CASKET, in which a charming young flatterer feigns an illness—Now in stock!

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6 months

Are you kidding me with this weather right now?? Absolutely perfect spring day in New York today

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2 years

We got some very good rare books in last week…

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4 years

We’re OPEN! Take a nice snowy walk down to Tribeca and say hello. Here 11-7.

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4 years

“The man browsed in a high-toned way, but when he got around to shoplifting, he chose sleaze.” Simply cannot get over this article from a 1985 New York Times issue, where a Mysterious Bookshop employee criticizes a robber’s taste in books...

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4 years

Only thing better than being outside on a day as gorgeous as today is being inside a mystery-specialty bookshop (with the front door propped open, of course). Come see us!

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3 years

In honor of Elmore Leonard’s birthday, here’s a cool picture from when he and Walter Mosley were both in the shop at the same time

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3 years

The Mysterious Bookshop opened 42 years ago today. Here’s what the New York Times had to say on Friday the 13th, April, 1979:

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9 months

Need a last minute gift for the mystery lover in your life? Subscribe them to the American Mystery Classics series, “basically the Criterion Collection for Golden Age mysteries” ( @rianjohnson ). Members get 20% off the cover price & a book a month. Details:

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3 years

Join us in welcoming Ryan to his new role as the manager of our store! (Our current manager Mike will be transitioning to Crime Club director moving forward)

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3 years

Thinking maybe we should carry holiday cards this year—but only just this one

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3 months

Some favorite covers from the bunch

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3 months

Three shelves of pristine golden age mystery volumes that just arrived at the shop this week

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3 years

Thanks to everyone who came out tonight for our event with @T_J_Newman , who discussed her debut novel, FALLING, with @adrianmckinty ! If you missed it, the livestream of the conversation is archived on YouTube:

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7 years

Tomorrow night at @LIVEfromtheNYPL , @pattonoswalt discusses I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, the posthumous true-crime masterpiece written by his wife Michelle McNamara. Discount code "mysteriousbookshop" gets 20% off tickets, available here:

Patton Oswalt with Paul Holdengräber: I'll Be Gone in the Dark

The comedian and actor Patton Oswalt shares the posthumous true-crime masterpiece written by his wife Michelle McNamara, who died suddenly at the age of 46 in 2016. McNamara, creator of TrueCrimeD...

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2 years

The joint is jumpin’, even on a day as dreary as this

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