Otto is not only the proprietor of a famous book store, a publisher, and a member of a venerable Sherlockian institution, however he has also, incredibly, edited more than fifty crime fiction anthologies, which leads one to believe that if there were such a thing as the Emperor of Mystery Anthologies, we really ought to have crowned him by this time.Īn avid fan of Sherlock Holmes from his first reading of the tales, Otto’s latest project is the hotly anticipated Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, an assembly that is not merely enormous but meticulously selected by a gentleman who has probably read more Sherlockian pastiches than any other living human. All four of my novels were launched at his store, but I first got to know Otto by making the Sherlockian social rounds as a fellow Baker Street Irregular, which generally involves black tie attire and varying amounts of fine whiskey. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.When I moved to New York City, there were three mystery-centric bookshops still in operation-now that (tragically) only one remains, you have to assume Otto Penzler of The Mysterious Bookshop must be doing something right. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. 15 Edgar Award-winning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Over a century's worth of cases, from Conan Doyle's 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaiman's "The Case of Death and Honey" (2011) No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter) and parodies by Conan Doyle's contemporaries A. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P.
Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S.
John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembledĪrguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes.
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