The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes by Mike Ashley (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: The impossible-crime story is like a good trick. In fact it has to be better than a good trick. Not only must the puzzle fascinate and mystify, but the solution must be just as surprising, yet believable. How often have you had a magician’s trick explained and then felt deflated? It almost feels a cheat. Well, these stories had to avoid that. When you read the solution to the crime, you should be able to say, “That was clever. I’d never have thought of that.”
That’s what I hope we’ve done in this book. I’ve endeavoured to bring together a collection of stories that seem utterly baffling and where the solution is equally amazing. Not an easy trick.
Mike Ashley
Genre:Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
CONTENTS:
Foreword
Introduction HEY, PRESTO! Mike Ashley
WAITING FOR GODSTOW Martin Edwards
THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY Kate Ellis
A TRAVELLER’S TALE Margaret Frazer
THE SILVER CURTAIN John Dickson Carr
THE STOLEN SAINT SIMON Michael Kurland
THE PROBLEM OF THE CROWDED CEMETERY Edward D. Hoch
DEATH RIDES THE ELEVATOR Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg
THE BURGLAR WHO SMELLED SMOKE Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block
NO WAY OUT Michael Collins
OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH Clayton Rawson
MURDER STRIPS OFF Amy Myers
OUT OF HIS HEAD Thomas Bailey Aldrich
THE DOOMDORF MYSTERY Melville Davisson Post
THE ADVENTURE OF THE JACOBEAN HOUSE C.N. & A.M. Williamson
THE MOTOR BOAT Jacques Futrelle
MURDER IN THE AIR Peter Tremayne
THE PULP CONNECTION Bill Pronzini
STAG NIGHT Marilyn Todd
MR STRANG ACCEPTS A CHALLENGE William Brittain
All A’s are C’s.
THE LEGS THAT WALKED H.R.F. Keating
THE NEXT BIG THING Peter T. Garratt
THE SECOND DRUG Richard A. Lupoff
ICE ELATION Susanna Gregory
THE MYSTERY OF THE TAXI-CAB Howel Evans
HEARTSTOPPER Frank M. Robinson
BLIND EYES Edward Marston
THE AMOROUS CORPSE Peter Lovesey
Afterword
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