April 13, 1979. On this date Otto Penzler, collector of mysteries, opened the Mysterious Bookstore in New York City. Remarkably, it's still open where many independent booksellers have closed. For many years that building also housed
The Armchair Detective and Mysterious Press, the first publishing house dedicated entirely to crime fiction. Penzler has changed the field in a dozen ways, and is still editing several books a year.
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