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Golden Age Detective Stories
  • Published: 8 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804999431
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99

Golden Age Detective Stories

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A collection of forgotten classics, featuring the greatest detectives of the Golden Age as they investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era.

In this collection of mysteries, the greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era.

The investigators in these stories are from all walks of life – retired magicians to schoolteachers, Broadway producers to nuns. Whether professional or amateur, these keen-eyed detectives must get to the bottom of the most baffling cases of their careers.

Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler has hand-picked some of the most illustrious writers of the classic detective story from the Golden Age of mystery fiction. With authors including Ellery Queen, Cornell Woolrich and Erle Stanley Gardner, this gripping collection is sure to delight and entertain mystery fans.

Praise for Golden Age Detective Stories:

‘In addition to well-known contributors, such as Ellery Queen and Erle Stanley Gardner, Penzler presents memorable tales from the lesser-known’ – Publishers Weekly

‘Belongs on the shelf of any true mystery fan, and in the collection of every library’s mystery section’ – Booklist

‘Exemplary’ – Kirkus
  • Published: 8 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804999431
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and founded the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He has written and edited several books, including the Edgar Award-winning Encyclopaedia of Mystery and Detection, and is the series editor of the annual Best American Mystery Stories of the Year.
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Also by Otto Penzler

Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
Golden Age Bibliomysteries
Golden Age Christmas Mysteries
Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries
Golden Age Whodunits
The Big Book of Espionage
The Big Book of Reel Murders
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Praise for Golden Age Detective Stories

‘In addition to well-known contributors, such as Ellery Queen and Erle Stanley Gardner, Penzler presents memorable tales from the lesser-known’

Publishers Weekly

‘Belongs on the shelf of any true mystery fan, and in the collection of every library’s mystery section.’

Booklist

‘Exemplary.’

Kirkus

It's a must for any fan of the detective genre to have a few of Otto Penzler's collections on your shelf, and this is a great addition. Open up, dive in and lose yourself for a while. An absolute delight.

Ian Moore

An eclectic and wonderfully entertaining collection which proves that vintage American detective stories are just as diverse and ingenious as their British counterparts.

Martin Edwards

'This new series makes available again, in some cases for the first time in nearly a century, the best crime fiction you've never heard of'

A J Finn