Otto Penzler is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He is the founder of the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books and has received two Edgar awards, the Ellery Queen Mystery Award, and the Raven Award for his contributions to the mystery field.
25 Ebooks by Stanley Ellin
Rudolph Fisher: Conjure-Man Dies: A Harlem Mystery
A unique crime classic: the very first detective novel written by an African-American, set in 1930s New York with only Black characters.When the body of N’Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is dis …
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€7.79
Stanley Ellin: Speciality of the House
‘A macabre little tale about an unusual restaurant in Manhattan and its lonely patrons, it displayed both a debt to Edgar Allan Poe and an acute understanding of human nature that is the key to the s …
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€2.99
Stanley Ellin: Eighth Circle
For Murray Kirk, running a private investigation agency is a business; he isn’t interested in justice or crusades, just profit and loss. And, because Murray knows something about police corruption, w …
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€1.99
Stanley Ellin: Stronghold
James Flood, just released from a Florida prison, has a desperate scheme. He and his recruits, all hardened criminals, will move in upon a prominent upstate New York family, holding the Hayworth wome …
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€3.99
Stanley Ellin: Luxembourg Run
At ten, David Shaw, a silent and observant little boy already fluent in half a dozen languages, was being dragged through the capitals of Europe by a diplomat father and a beautiful scatterbrained mo …
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€2.49
Stanley Ellin: Very Old Money
The enormously wealthy Durie family occupies a gigantic baroque turn-of-the-century mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The family, whose fortune was established in Colonial times, is traditional …
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€3.99
Stanley Ellin: Dreadful Summit
His father humiliated, a teenage boy vows bloody revenge Every sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hard-bitten reporter whose column is the scourge of gamblers, gangsters, and corrupt players …
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€11.50
Stanley Ellin: House of Cards
Hired as a tutor for a madwoman’s son, an American expatriate scraps to stay alive A washed-up heavyweight with dreams of becoming a writer, Reno Davis is down to his last franc when he lands a …
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€12.79
Stanley Ellin: Dark Fantastic
In a desolate part of Brooklyn, a retired history professor plots mass murder The withered old man speaks into a tape recorder. This is not a confession, he explains, but a presentation. He is Charle …
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€12.87
Stanley Ellin: Key to Nicholas Street
A grisly murder reveals the hateful secrets that lie beneath a small town’s surface The locals call her the Ballou. An illustrator for a high-fashion magazine, she has been the talk of the upst …
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€2.57
Stanley Ellin: Eighth Circle
Edgar Award winner: Investigating a crooked cop, a private detective gets too close to the case. The investigators of the Conmy-Kirk detective agency don’t work in trench coats, drink on the jo …
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€12.87
Stanley Ellin: Stronghold
Four desperate ex-cons attempt an audacious kidnapping James Flood and his three partners get out of jail with a single number on their minds: $1 million, in cash, for each of them. To get it, they h …
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€11.51
Stanley Ellin: Specialty of the House
In a quaint old restaurant, a chef relies on a devilish secret ingredient In Sbirro’s restaurant, there is no electric lighting, no music, and no menu. The only sound is the contented sighs of …
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€15.35
Stanley Ellin: Panama Portrait
From a three-time Edgar Awardwinning author: Local rituals and a lost painting draw a New York businessman into intrigue on a remote Pacific island. Ben Smith, a market researcher from New York City, …
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€11.61
Stanley Ellin: Bind
From a three-time Edgar Award–winning author: A private eye trails a blackmailer, a missing Florida widow, and a double-indemnity swindler. Freelance private investigator Jake Dekker and his lo …
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€12.74
Stanley Ellin: Luxembourg Run
A young drug runner gets revenge on a crime syndicate in this novel of deception and international double crosses from an Edgar Award–winning author. By the time David Hanna Shaw is shuttled of …
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€2.55
Stanley Ellin: Valentine Estate
Edgar Award Finalist: A former Miami Beach tennis pro discovers the dangerous price of marrying for money in “one of the year’s best chillers” (The New York Times Book Review). Ther …
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€15.45
Stanley Ellin: Very Old Money
Two servants discover family skeletons behind the closed doors of a forbidding Manhattan mansion in this mystery by a three-time Edgar Award–winning author. In dire financial straits, young cou …
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€12.69
Stanley Ellin: Winter After This Summer
In the wake of a tragic accident, a young college student haunted by guilt moves to New York City to shake the past and discover his destiny. After three years at Temple University, Dan Egan was stil …
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€12.85
Stanley Ellin: Star Light, Star Bright
From a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master: A Manhattan PI heads to Florida to deal with movie stars, a mysterious guru, and murder. New York City private eye John Milano’s new client is an …
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€12.79
