Title:
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries : the Most Complete Collection of Impossible-Crime Stories Ever Assembled / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.
ISBN:
9780307743961
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.
Physical Description:
xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- A Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- Two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- Invisible man / G.K. Chesterton -- Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post -- Adventure of the Speckled Band / Arthur Conan Doyle.
Wrong problem / John Dickson Carr -- Thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson -- Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe -- Aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman -- Crewel needle / Gerald Kersh -- Doctor's case / Stephen King -- A Knife between brothers / Manly Wade Wellman -- Glass gravestone / Joseph Commings -- Tea leaf / Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- Flung-back lid / Peter Godfrey -- Crooked picture / John Lutz -- Blind man's hood / Carter Dickson.
Man from nowhere / Edward D. Hoch -- Laughing butcher / Fredric Brown -- Sands of thyme / Michael Innes -- Flying death / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- Flying corpse / A.E. Martin -- Flying hat / Vincent Cornier.
Day the children vanished / Hugh Pentecost -- Twelfth statue / Stanley Ellin -- All at once, no Alice / William Irish -- Beware of the trains / Edmund Crispin -- Locked bathroom / H.R.F. Keating -- Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Dashiell Hammett -- Episode of the Torment IV / C. Daly King -- Greaves' disappearance / Julian Hawthorne -- House of haunts / Ellery Queen -- Monkey trick / J.E. Gurdon -- Ordinary hairpins / E.C. Bentley -- Phantom motor / Jacques Futrelle -- Theft of the Bermuda penny / Edward D. Hoch -- Room number 23 / Judson Philips.
Burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block -- Kestar diamond case / Augustus Muir -- Odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis -- Problem of the old oak tree / Edward D. Hoch -- Invisible weapon / Nicholas Olde -- Confession of Rosa Vitelli / Ray Cummings -- Locked room to end locked rooms / Stephen Barr.
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 -- Dream / Agatha Christie -- Border-line case / Margery Allingham -- Bradmoor murder / Melville Davisson Post -- Man who like toys / Leslie Charteris -- Ashcomb poor case / Hulbert Footner -- Little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon.
Bird in the hand / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Gulverbury diamonds / David Durham -- Fifth tube / Frederick Irving Anderson -- Strange case of Steinkelwintz / MacKinlay Kantor -- Arsène Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc -- Mystery of the strong room / L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- No way out / Dennis Lynds -- Episode of the codex' curse / C. Daly King.
Poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A Traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -- Death at the Excelsior / P.G. Wodehouse.
Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards.
Summary:
The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries byStephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P.G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman's study, an elevator car--nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Featuring Unconventional means of murder Pilfered jewels Shocking solutions Includes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL.
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OCLC Number:
ocn879552929
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
