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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.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  M BLACK    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION BLACK LIZARD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M BLACK    Lost and Paid
Description xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
FICTION / Crime.
Genre/Form Mystery fiction.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00891483
Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
Added Author Penzler, Otto, editor of compilation.
ISBN 9780307743961 (paperback)
0307743969 (paperback)
9780804172790 (ebook)
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