Otto Penzler's Blog

Murray Sinclair's Ben Crandel series makes a return in print and ebook formats. 

Lawrence Lariar (1908–1981) was an American novelist, cartoonist and cartoon editor, known for his Best Cartoons of the Year series of cartoon collections...

Condor is back in five collected stories and a brand-new novella from James Grady.

Publishers Weekly says Condor: The Short Takes is "an author writing at the top of his, or anyone else’s, game." Come to Politics and Prose on April 30 so you can congratulate him. 

Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick, and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912–1987), Richard Wilson Webb (1901–1966), Martha Mott Kelley (1906–2005), and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902–1984) wrote detective fiction.

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield, whose credits include the classic Death Wish, passed away peacefully on December 29.

Condor: The Short Takes features a brand-new novella from Grady, timely in a way that only he could have written...

Check out six classic Westlake titles, now in eBook formats...

Four new eBooks, including Wilson's medical thrillers Implant and Deep as the Marrow!

We're very excited to release Mystery Stories by Elizabeth Peters—three shorts from a master of the genre, not just in eBook formats, but in a handsome little paperback, too!