The Mysterious Bookshop: Award-winning NYC Mystery Bookstore

58 Warren Street
New York, NY, 10007
tel: 212-587-1011
fax: 212-587-1126
orders only: 1-800-352-2840
www.mysteriousbookshop.com

"One of the oldest mystery specialist book stores in America," the Mysterious Bookshop is currently located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. The store stocks new mystery hardcovers, paperbacks and periodicals, as well as signed modern first editions, rare/collectible hardcovers and "Sherlockiana," works about that most famous sleuth of all.

The Mysterious Bookshop opened on April 13, 1979 and has had a long history of providing its customers with mysteries. Recently relocated to Tribeca from Midtown Manhattan, the bookstore's proprietor, Otto Penzler is also a mystery book writer, editor and publisher. Both the bookstore and Penzler have been honored by the Mystery Writers of America for their contributions to the mystery book genre.

The Mysterious Bookshop thoroughly serves the needs of its mystery-loving customers. It publishes a monthly newsletter featuring new and collectible titles, and the bookstore's Book Clubs offer monthly selections divided by sub-genres: Crime, First Mystery, Soft-Boiled (traditional, historical and romantic suspense), Hard-Boiled, British Crime, Thriller/Espionage and "Unclassifiable" (which includes "biblio, literary and the just plain odd."

The Mysterious Bookshop frequently hosts mystery book launches and other mystery author events.