| Description |
xi, 359 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
The "locked room" story has a long and noble history. These stories, by some of the best authors, will mystify your, terrify you-- and entertain you! |
| Contents |
The shadow of the goat / John Dickson Carr -- The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- The problem of the Emperor's mushrooms / James Yaffe -- From another world / Clayton Rawson -- Through a glass, darkly / Helen McCloy -- Snowball in July / Ellery Queen -- The Newtonian egg / Peter Godfrey -- The triple-lock'd room / Lillian de la Torre -- The brazen locked room / Isaac Asimov -- The Martian crown jewels / Poul Anderson -- The day the children vanished / Hugh Pentecost -- As if by magic / Julian Symons -- The impossible theft / John F. Suter -- Mr. Strang takes a field trip / William Brittain -- No one likes to be played for a sucker / Michael Collins -- The Arrowmont Prison riddle / Bill Pronzini -- Box in a box / Jack Ritchie -- The Number 12 jinx / John L. Breen -- The magician's wife / J.F. Peirce -- The problem of the covered bridge / Edward D. Hoch. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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| Added Author |
Hoch, Edward D., 1930-2008.
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Mystery Writers of America.
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| ISBN |
0899190456 |
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9780899190457 |
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