British Mystery Multipack Vol 8 by Israel Zangwill, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle & Melville Davisson Post (2015) (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: We all love a mystery, and a seemingly impossible crime presents the most mysterious of all scenarios for puzzle-lovers. The ‘locked-room mystery’ is the most celebrated form of impossible crime story, and it’s a sign of the importance of this branch of the genre that the tale regarded by common consent as the first detective story involved a macabre killing inside a locked room. This was ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ by Edgar Allan Poe, which introduced C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant amateur detective who provided, in some respects, a model for the most famous sleuth of all, Sherlock Holmes.
Intriguingly, Poe’s story was not even the first story to explore the strange implications of a locked-room scenario. Sheridan Le Fanu’s eerie ‘A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess’ anticipated Poe’s masterpiece by three years, while E.T.A. Hoffman’s novella ‘Mademoiselle de Scuderi’ had appeared as early as 1818. One can therefore claim that impossible crime stories have been a feature of the literary landscape for the past two centuries.
Locked-room mysteries cropped up sporadically throughout the nineteenth century, and Israel Zangwill, a prominent Zionist thinker, was responsible for a famous example of the form, The Big Bow Mystery (1892), sometimes known as The Perfect Crime. In the early twentieth century, Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907), featuring a journalist detective called Joseph Rouletabille, was widely admired, not least by Agatha Christie and the American John Dickson Carr.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Big Bow Mystery – Israel Zangwill
The Four Just Men – Edgar Wallace
The Invisible Man – G.K. Chesterton
The Wrong Shape – G.K. Chesterton
The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Doomdorf Mystery – Melville Davisson Post
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