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the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled

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English
Pages
941

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Table of Contents

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
The
Wrong problem -- John Dickson Carr -- The
Thing invisible -- William Hope Hodgson
Department of impossible crimes -- James Yaffe -- The
Aluminium 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
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
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
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
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 like toys -- Leslie Charteris -- The
Ashcomb poor case -- Hulbert Footner -- The
Little house at Croix-Rousse -- Georges Simenon
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
Arsène 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
The
Poisoned dow '08 -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- A
Traveller's tale -- Margaret Frazer
Death at the Excelsior -- P. G. Wodehouse
Waiting for Godstow -- Martin Edwards.

Edition Notes

Series
Vintage Crime/Black lizard original, Vintage crime/Black Lizard original
Other Titles
Big book of locked-room mysteries, Locked-room mysteries

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.087208
Library of Congress
PS648.D4 B54 2014, PS648.D4B54 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 941 pages
Number of pages
941

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27168431M
Internet Archive
blacklizardbigbo0000unse
ISBN 10
0307743969
ISBN 13
9780307743961
LCCN
2014005685
OCLC/WorldCat
879552929

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