Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop

Name: Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Otto Penzler
ISBN: 9781696604772

Author: Otto Penzler

Narrator: Christina Delaine, Matt Godfrey

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 04/06/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Collections & Anthologies, Seasonal Fiction

Synopsis

Each year, for seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now, all seventeen tales have been collected in one volume, showcasing the talents of: Charles Ardai, Lisa Atkinson, George Baxt, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Ron Goulart, Jeremiah Healy, Edward D. Hoch, Rupert Holmes, Andrew Klavan, Michael Malone, Ed McBain, Anne Perry, S. J. Rozan, Jonathan Santlofer, and Donald E. Westlake.

Some of these stories are humorous, others suspenseful, and still others are tales of pure detection, but all of them together make up a charming collection and a perfect Christmas gift for all ages.

About Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA's Ellery Queen Award, and the Raven Award. He has been given Lifetime Achievement awards by Noircon and the Strand Magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse on February 22, 2017

I liked this book. As with all anthologies, some stories are better than others. Some were more Christmas-ey than others and more were more mysterious than others. However, I found it to be a lot of fun. The only rules for these stories are that the story must take place at Christmas time and some o......more

Goodreads review by Linda on December 07, 2015

A great book for Christmas season. I have several books of short stories that were collected by Otto Penzler and never really knew who he was. I do now! Every year Penzler, the owner of the real Mysterious Bookshop in NYC, asks mystery authors to write a short story that he then publishes (usually fo......more

Goodreads review by Margie on December 04, 2016

A collection of short mystery stories written by 17 authors over seventeen years. Otto Penzler, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York had the authors, one at a time, create a short story which he gave away as a gift each Christmas for the 17 years. A good Christmas read and the mix of stories......more

Goodreads review by Alexandria on December 07, 2016

As a Christmas gift to his loyal customers, Otto Penzler, owner of The Mysterious Bookshop, solicits a short story to be written and published by Penzler's publishing company; this book is a compilation of some of those short mysteries. Not so long ago all I read were mysteries, and I forgot how muc......more

Goodreads review by Lee on December 27, 2019

Decided to read a Christmas story this year..ended up being an anthology. All the tales take place at times in the Bookshop, and Otto is in them also. With some of the big guns in the mystery genre, this was a nice cozy mystery collection of who-dun-it's, during the holidays.......more