| Description |
xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"The most complete collection of impossible-crime stories ever assembled" -- Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Familiar as the rose in spring. The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe ; The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle ; A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins ; The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany ; The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton ; The doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post ; The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle -- This was the unkindest cut of all. The wrong problem / John Dickson Carr ; The thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson ; Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe ; The aluminum dagger / R. Austin Freeman ; The crewel needle / Gerald Kersh ; The doctor's case / Stephen King ; A knife between brothers / Manly Wade Wellman ; The glass gravestone / Joseph Commings ; The tea leaf / Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace ; The flung-back lid / Peter Godfrey ; The crooked picture / John Lutz ; Blind man's hood / Carter Dickson -- Footprints in the sands of time. The man from nowhere / Edward D. Hoch ; The laughing butcher / Fredric Brown ; The sands of thyme / Michael Innes ; The flying death / Samuel Hopkins Adams ; The flying corpse / A. E. Martin ; The flying hat / Vincent Cornier -- And we missed it, lost forever The day the children vanished / Hugh Pentecost ; The twelfth statue / Stanley Ellin ; All at once, no Alice / William Irish ; Beware of the trains / Edmund Crispin ; The locked bathroom / H. R. F. Keating ; Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Dashiell Hammett ; The episode of the Torment IV / C. Daly King ; Greaves' disappearance / Julian Hawthorne ; The house of haunts / Ellery Queen ; The monkey trick / J. E. Gurdon ; The ordinary hairpins / E. C. Bentley ; The phantom motor / Jacques Futrelle ; The theft of the Bermuda penny / Edward D. Hoch ; Room number 23 / Judson Philips -- How easily is murder discovered. The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block ; The kestar Diamond case / Augustus Muir ; The odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis ; The problem of the old oak tree / Edward D. Hoch ; The invisible weapon / Nicholas Olde ; The confession of Rosa Vitelli / Ray Cummings ; The locked room to end locked rooms / Stephen Barr -- Shoot if you must. Nothing is impossible / Clayton Rawson ; Where have you gone, Sam Spade? / Bill Pronzini ; In a telephone cabinet / G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole ; Death out of thin air / Stuart Towne ; The dream / Agatha Christie ; The border-line case / Margery Allingham ; The bradmoor murder / Melville Davisson Post ; The man who liked toys / Leslie Charteris ; The ashcomb Poor case / Hulbert Footner ; The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- Stolen sweets are best. The bird in the hand / Erle Stanley Gardner ; The gulverbury diamonds / David Durham ; The fifth tube / Frederick Irving Anderson ; The strange case of Steinkelwintz / MacKinlay Kantor ; Arsene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc ; The mystery of the strong room / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace ; No way out / Dennis Lynds ; The episode of the Codex' curse / C. Daly King -- One man's poison, signor, is another's meat. The poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -; A traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -; Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse -- Our final hope is flat despair. Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards. |
| Summary |
Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form — a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth — this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you'll find stories with evocative titles like "The Flying Death", "The Man From Nowhere", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "The Theft of the Bermuda Penny", not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, and many more. |
| Subject |
Private investigators -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Mystery fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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| Added Author |
Penzler, Otto, editor.
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| Added Title |
Big book of locked-room mysteries |
| ISBN |
9780307743961 (paperback) |
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0307743969 (paperback) |
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