Open 11-7 today for anyone smug and middle class enough to want to buy a book
Mysterious Bookshop
12.8K posts
The world’s oldest & largest mystery fiction bookstore (est 1979), located in Manhattan, shipping worldwide. Home of @penzlerpub, @eMysteries & @MysteriousPress
- Happy Independent Bookstore Day, everybody! We’ll be here observing this wonderful occasion until 7 PM
- Replying to @TheMysteriousThis tweet got over one thousand hearts so I am obligated to post a photo of the shop as well as our web address: mysteriousbookshop.com
- if you then don't you dont love me deserve me at my at my
- The Mysterious Bookshop opened 44 years ago today, on April 13th, 1979. Thank you to our customers for keeping us around!
- Nice morning visit from our favorite director, @rianjohnson, seen here with store manager Ryan Lee Gilbert
- It’s been fun having a blue check. Sorry for all the corruption we did with it — we were just trying to sell some books!
- Managed to snap a few photos during our staff visit last weekend to Otto’s home library—probably the best private collection of mystery fiction in the world
- The Mysterious Bookshop opened on this day in 1979. Thanks to our wonderful customers for 45 years and counting!!
- Wishing a very happy birthday to Mysterious Bookshop owner Otto Penzler, born on this day in 1942
- Happy pub day to Michael @Connellybooks, seen here signing his new Ballard & Bosch novel, THE WAITING
- Horrible flooding in NYC today (including in my apartment), but relieved to report that our basement offices—most importantly our rare book room—have remained dry. We’re open 11-7 today, stop by if you need to get out of the rain.



















