- Golden age locked room mysteries, Otto Penzler, editor
- The best American mystery stories, 2002, Best American mystery series, edited and with an introduction by James Ellroy ; Otto Penzler, series editor
- The Cape Cod mystery, Phoebe Atwood Taylor ; introduction by Otto Penzler
- A taste for honey, H.F. Heard ; introduction by Otto Penzler
- The best mystery stories of the year, 2022, introduction by Sara Paretsky ; foreword by Otto Penzler
- The best American mystery stories 2016, edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth George ; Otto Penzler, series editor