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Otto, Cannonball and Glen

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Marc Myers
Aug 12, 2017
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This week in
The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed Otto Penzler, mystery-fiction editor and owner of New York's Mysterious Bookshop, for my "House Call" column in the paper's Mansion section (go here). Penzler's childhood was quite harrowing. In the late 1930s, his mother married a German who was here illegally. The couple then moved to Nazi Germany. O…

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