![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Ted asked, ‘You mean the stone Tudor?’” “I said, ‘Ted, I’m ready to build my house.’ Mind you, this is more than 30 years later. Kvell, who had grown up to be an architect. “If I had told my mother I was going to live in that house or on Mars, Mars would have been a likelier option.” “I tore out the page and said, ‘Someday I’m going to live there,’” Mr. Penzler is viewed by many as a champion of crime fiction and its practitioners, some have claimed that during his tenure as editor of the annual anthology “The Best American Mystery Stories” he gave short shrift to diverse voices, and the series now has a new name, “The Best American Mystery and Suspense,” and a new editor, Steph Cha.) The latest, “The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries,” is due out Oct. Penzler, 79, who is also the founder of The Mysterious Press, a publishing company, and the editor of numerous anthologies. “I was hoping to buy a place in the country large enough to hold all those books,” said Mr. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good 60,000 books must be in want of a very big house.Īt some point in the mid-1980s, Otto Penzler, the indefatigable founder and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, the Manhattan store specializing in fictitious tales of crime and espionage and whodunits of a high order, could no longer ignore the evidence: His personal collection of first editions had outgrown his office, and cartons containing the overflow were stashed in a pal’s garage. ![]()
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