What Makes for Great Mysteries? with Otto Penzler

October 30, 2024 00:58:49
What Makes for Great Mysteries? with Otto Penzler
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What Makes for Great Mysteries? with Otto Penzler

Oct 30 2024 | 00:58:49

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Show Notes

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 226 episode of The Atlas Society Asks, where she interviews Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on crime, mystery, and suspense fiction.

Otto Penzler is the president and CEO of MysteriousPress.com and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop. Regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on crime, mystery, and suspence fiction, Penzler has won two Edgar Awards for Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977 and The Lineup in 2010. As a prolific editor, his most recent anthologies include The Big Book of Espionage Stories, The Big Book of Reel Murders, The Big Book of Female Detectives, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, and The Best American Noir of the Century with James Ellroy. The Mystery Writers of America has also awarded Penzler the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 and the Raven--the group's highest non-writing award--in 2003.

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