Boodles sent John D. MacDonald several cases to encourage Travis McGee to switch from Plymouth to their gin, which he did in later books

100 Years of 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' crimereads.com/100-years-of... via @crimereads.bsky.social

I'll Be Right Here Author Amy Bloom Announces New Mystery Blunt Instrument — See the Cover! (Exclusive) people.com/blunt-instru...

I saw "Edward" in Los Angeles recently. It is unlike any theater I have seen, a riveting and poignant small performance that is almost impossible to describe—maybe like if Cheever wrote a biographical play in the form of a puzzle. I recommend seeing it at @mysteriousbookshop.com buff.ly/C26lymP

Maigret cover with photos by Chris Marker (director of Sans Soleil)

Our first night in NYC and we already made it to a bookstore. The wonderful @mysteriousbookshop.com.

Cover artist James Bama used himself as the model for the two zombies in the back on the Doc Savage cover.

When the Wessex Cup races are run at The Mysterious Bookshop on Thursday, January 8, will there be 4 tiny toy horses in the running, or will there be 8? There are still 4 ponies left. So, if you'd like to have a pony in the Wessex Cup, you can get one here -- acdsociety.com/Cup/Stables2...

Found two more Nicholas Blake, aka Cecil Day-Lewis, mysteries today. Love the writing, the quirkiness, the humor, the psychological portraits in these Strangeways books. Another example of a very good writer taking to writing mysteries for the money. Under a pseudonym of course. ❤️

Closing at 5 PM tonight. Happy New Year everybody

A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂

Rounding out 2025 and our tenure as the USA Today best bookstore of the year… Sincere thanks to everyone who shopped here, signed here, attended an event here, or even just shouted us out on social media over the past 12 months. We couldn’t do it without you!

Check out the books I worked on this year!

Rounding out 2025 and our tenure as the USA Today best bookstore of the year… Sincere thanks to everyone who shopped here, signed here, attended an event here, or even just shouted us out on social media over the past 12 months. We couldn’t do it without you!

Another year for the books! It’s been a pleasure working with all of these authors, and we want to thank all of the readers, reviewers, booksellers, and librarians who supported our releases over the past year. We couldn’t do it without you! Here’s to more great reads in 2026.🥂 💙📚 🔎💀📚 ⚡️📚

Possibly our biggest year yet! Excited for 2026 and new titles from Jonathan Ames, Charles Cumming, Amy Bloom, Ragnar Jonasson, and more…

There’s all of the books we published this year at our in-house mystery press, Penzler Publishers

I read more than a few of these. Congrats on a solid year.

There’s all of the books we published this year at our in-house mystery press, Penzler Publishers

From the same year, Westlake on Fresh Air (including a short reading of "The Ax") freshairarchive.org/segments/mys...

I had my short story “Effie’s Oasis” selected by Otto Penzler and John Grisham for inclusion in @mysteriousbookshop.com presents THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Open 11-7 today! Come in and sleuth around

good morning ___ The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke, 1934)

We will be open 11-5 today for anyone who just now realized a murder mystery could make the perfect gift

HOLIDAY HOURS: Open 11-7 Monday & Tuesday, 11-5 on 12/24, closed on 12/25, and open 11-7 again on Friday 12/26. Stop by for all your last minute mystery gift needs!

Just sent a newsletter talking about the bookshop I wish I’d found years ago - @mysteriousbookshop.com www.cavletter.com/the-mysterio...

Holiday shopping reaches a fever pitch. Surely you have to bring gifts to some readers who would love an ("ahem") great environmental thriller that you can't put down. At your local bookstore or, if you must, Amazon. The Glass Eel. Remember those three words.

This is the first time anyone has ever said they bought a Gollancz edition for the cover

Lisa Unger's wonderfully creepy holiday thriller, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, is on sale today at BookBub: www.bookbub.com/books/christ...

A few minutes into Wake Up Dead Man: "This is such a John Dickson Carr mystery set-up." Moments later Beniot Blanc's waving around a paperback of Carr's The Hollow Man as a prop and paraphrasing Dr. Gideon Fell's lecture on Impossible Crimes.

Lisa Unger's wonderfully creepy holiday thriller, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, is on sale today at BookBub: www.bookbub.com/books/christ...

The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye crimereads.com/erle-stanley...

Did something new with our lights this year that I think looks pretty great

Guess this is a bad time to mention that we’re considering going public as well. $MYST

Here’s the only photo I took at our Christmas party last night: Walter Mosley, Patrick Hoffman, and Raphael Montes

Every single person at our Xmas party complimented my pin so now we have to find a way to make more of them

Christmas party was crazy tonight

“A veritable primer on the locked [room] mystery.”—Benoit Blanc www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/joh...

Anybody else wait until this week to put up the Christmas tree? 😅

“A veritable primer on the locked [room] mystery.”—Benoit Blanc www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/joh...

Fun mix of moods and genres. Some melancholy, some funny, some dark, some straight up just good storytelling. My favorites were the entries by Ace Atkins, Rob Hart and David Gordon. #books #booksky

His American publisher is doing their best to make sure readers make the connection! Buy The Three Coffins (The Hollow Man) here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/joh...

This was a really nice holiday read!

Greetings from the world’s oldest mystery bookstore (aka NYC’s premiere gift destination for detective fiction fans)

You can now watch the entirety of our event with @rianjohnson.bsky.social and A. J. Finn on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9O...

This is an outstanding review for an excellent film—both of which put a love of mystery fiction front and center

The Lord's slayer: on the greatness of Josh O'Connor and John Dickson Carr, Benoit Blanc and Dr. Fell, and the many delights of Rian Johnson's mass-murder mystery, WAKE UP DEAD MAN. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

You can now watch the entirety of our event with @rianjohnson.bsky.social and A. J. Finn on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9O...

Cool! I'd seen that edition of Curtain, but hadn't made the connection with the typeface on the Knives Out poster.