A Mysterious Home for The Mysterious Bookshop Owner
Otto Penzler, 79, is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in TriBeCa, as well as a publisher of mysteries and thrillers, and an editor of many anthologies. (The latest, “The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries,” comes out on Oct. 19.) On weekends, he retreats to a custom-built house in Kent, Conn., that includes a library inspired by the Bodleian at Oxford.