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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Christmas Mysteries at the Mysterious Bookshop

Christmas Mysteries at the Mysterious Bookshop

Penzler, Otto

Hardcover

Mystery & Thriller

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1613168160
ISBN13: 9781613168165
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
Eighteen puzzling Christmas tales set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore

In 1993, The Mysterious Bookshop--the oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world--began an annual tradition by inviting bestselling author Donald E. Westlake to write an original short story set in the bookshop during the holiday season. Each year since then, The Mysterious Bookshop commissions a new short story from a leading author to give out as a holiday gift for its customers.

The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in the bookstore. Beyond these guidelines, authors had free rein to take the story in whatever direction they chose. This volume collects the first eighteen stories commissioned by the bookshop from 1993 to 2010.

Included are tales by Megan Abbott, Rupert Holmes, Mary Higgins Clark, Andrew Klavan, and Ed McBain, plus an updated introduction by Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler. Some of the stories are humorous, others thrilling, and still others are tales of pure detection. But all are guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit.

Originally published as Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop.

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