American Mystery Classics

Reissuing the best American mysteries from the Golden Age of the genre

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Great to see THE CROOKED HINGE and THE PLAGUE COURT MURDERS by John Dickson Carr on this list!

[Murder & Mayhem @murder_n_mayhem]

Look back on the Murder & Mayhem community's favorite reads of the year! https://t.co/KGFmjfzyji

[Kate Jackson @ArmchairSleuth]

It's the first week of nominations. Here's my choice and links to all the others.

Reprint of the Year Award 2025: The First Nominations https://t.co/4z12HwGvPu

[Vick Mickunas @BookNookVick]

I spoke to my literary hero Otto Penzler.

We spoke about many things, including a wonderful writer named Thomas Perry:

https://t.co/5ohRGPojj5

@MysteriousPress @TPerryauthor

[Penzler Publishers @PenzlerPub]

Are you a recent college grad who loves mysteries, thrillers, and true crime? We're hiring a winter/spring intern to support our publishing team, starting in January!

This position is part-time, paid, and in-person at our NYC offices.

(Link in next tweet)

[Kate Jackson @ArmchairSleuth]

A Puzzle for Fools (1936) by Patrick Quentin https://t.co/uLa8mgGm92
@PenzlerClassics

[Slice of SciFi @sliceofscifi]

Writers, After Dark 157: Otto Penzler

We talk about Otto's (proprietor of @TheMysterious & @PenzlerPub ) long history with mystery #fiction and authors.

Some of the newest: GOLDEN AGE CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES, BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR 2025
https://t.co/7YkYEONKey

[American Mystery Classics @PenzlerClassics]

THE MYSTERY OF THE CAPE COD TAVERN by Phoebe Atwood Taylor is out today in paperback and hardcover!

When the local innkeeper is found stabbed to death after insisting that someone was out to kill her, Asey Mayo—this small Cape Cod town’s answer to Sherlock Holmes—investigates.

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OBELISTS EN ROUTE by C. Daly King is out today in paperback and hardcover!

Kirkus calls this Golden Age mystery about the cutting edge of luxury train travel in 1939s America "extravagantly brainy [and] gloriously dated.”

[American Mystery Classics @PenzlerClassics]

CAT’S CLAW by Dolores Hitchens is out today!
From the godmother of cozy cat-themed mysteries comes another adventure for elderly sleuth Rachel Murdock and her inquisitive feline friend.
Kirkus calls it “a remarkably fresh entry in the cozy-adventure genre.”

[American Mystery Classics @PenzlerClassics]

THE BLACK CURTAIN by Cornell Woolrich is out now in paperback and hardcover! Frank Townsend attempts to unveil the curtain over his memories from the last three years, starting first with whether he committed the murder in which he's been accused of, in this beloved noir classic.

[Cornell Woolrich *ʰᵒᵐᵃᵍᵉ* @CornellWoolrich]

Arriving on bookshelves in just over a week, on February 4th: THE BLACK CURTAIN, the latest reprint of my work from @PenzlerPub's terrific American Mystery Classics imprint.

A man wakened from three years of amnesia is accused of a murder he cannot remember!

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MURDER BY THE CLOCK by Rufus King is out now in paperback and hardcover!

NYPD’s Lieutenant Valcour investigates how a philandering husband could have been murdered twice in one night in this Jazz Age whodunit that @KirkusReviews calls a “highly readable Golden Age gem.”

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Our AMC ad in this week's Publishers Weekly

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Lovely to see so many American Mystery Classics books in this Reprint of the Year Award roundup!

[Kate Jackson @ArmchairSleuth]

Reprint of the Year Awards 2024: The Results https://t.co/ocQSJER53f

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[Mysterious Bookshop @TheMysterious]

2024 American Mystery Classics books:

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All the books we published in 2024 at @PenzlerClassics

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Two AMC books are mentioned in today’s NYT column on vintage crime novels!
Check out what Sarah Weinman has to say about THE TULE MARSH MURDER and THE FALLEN SPARROW:

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5 Vintage Crime Novels Spiked With Peril and Pitfalls https://t.co/NtyBij0jtG

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THE FALLEN SPARROW by Dorothy B. Hughes is out now in paperback and hardcover!

Loyalty and friendship motivate a quest for revenge in this early noir novel by a master of the genre.

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THE THREE COFFINS by John Dickson Carr is out today in paperback and hardcover!
In a 1981 survey of mystery experts, The Three Coffins (called The Hollow Man in the UK) was voted the best locked room mystery of all time.
Grab a copy for yourself and find out why!

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Coming Summer 2025 from American Mystery Classics...