History

The Poisoned Pen Bookstore was founded in 1989 by Barbara G. Peters

Barbara G. Peters

Barbara G. Peters was born in Winnetka, Illinois.Peters was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the eleven most important people in Bookselling in their January 3, 2000 issue in an article entitled Eleven for the Millennium. She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA from Northwestern...

. It is an independent bookstore with strong specialities in crime fiction, especially British mystery and noir, history, and literature of the American Southwest. Located in Old Town Scottsdale's Art District, it moved to its present location in 1999. The store is well known for its heavy schedule of author events and for Autographed First Editions and does business nationally and internationally. In 1997 Peters and her husband Robert Rosenwald founded Poisoned Pen Press

Poisoned Pen Press

Poisoned Pen Press is a publisher of hardcover mystery fiction in the United States. It is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Poisoned Pen Press typically publishes thirty-six new hardcover mysteries per year, thirty-six new large type editions of those hardcovers, and between thirty and forty new trade...

, a separate corporation dedicated to publishing excellence in mystery. The Poisoned Pen hosted the Left Coast Crime Conference in 1995. and most years hosts a themed mystery conference of its own in Scottsdale. A frequently updated blog supplements its monthly Booknews.