Mysterious Obsession: Memoirs of a Compulsive Collector

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2019
Author
Author: Otto Penzler
Language
English
Number of Pages
163 pp.
Publisher
Mysterious Bookshop
City
New York, NY
Region
United States
Library Type
Private/Personal Library
Chronological Period
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781613161760
Annotation

The author founded the Mysterious Press, devoted to publishing mystery and crime fiction, established the Mysterious Bookshop in New York, and amassed a substantial collection of mystery, crime, and detective fiction. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • Memoires de Vidocq : Francoise-Eugene Vidocq
  • Bleak house : Charles Dickens
  • After dark : Wilkie Collins
  • The Leavenworth case : Anna Katharine Green
  • The mystery of a hansom cab : Fergus Hume
  • Prince Zaleski : M.P. Shiel
  • Three women and a mystery : Anna Katharine Green
  • Lingo Dan : Percival Pollard
  • The mystery of the yellow room : Gaston Leroux
  • The adventures of Archer Dawe (sleuth-hound) : J.S. Fletcher
  • The silent bullet : Arthur B. Reeve
  • Adventures of the infallible Goddahl : Frederick Irving Anderson
  • The house without a key : Earl Derr Biggers
  • Meet the tiger : Leslie Charteris
  • Red harvest : Dashiell Hammett
  • The maltese falcon : Dashiell Hammett
  • The curious Mr. Tarrant : C. Daly King
  • The disintegration of J.P.G. : Georges Simenon
  • Brighton rock : Graham Greene
  • Death from a top hat : Clayton Rawson
  • The powwow murder case : S.S. Van Dine
  • The big sleep : Raymond Chandler
  • Farewell, my lovely : Raymond Chandler
  • $106,000 blood money : Dashiell Hammett
  • Blood on the dining room floor : Gertrude Stein  
  • The deep blue good-by : John D. MacDonald.
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