The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries : the Most Complete Collection of Impossible-Crime Stories Ever Assembled /
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.
- xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm
Bird in the hand / Gulverbury diamonds / Fifth tube / Strange case of Steinkelwintz / Arsène Lupin in prison / Mystery of the strong room / No way out / Episode of the codex' curse / Erle Stanley Gardner -- David Durham -- Frederick Irving Anderson -- MacKinlay Kantor -- Maurice Leblanc -- L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- Dennis Lynds -- C. Daly King -- The The The The The The Burglar who smelled smoke / Kestar diamond case / Odour of sanctity / Problem of the old oak tree / Invisible weapon / Confession of Rosa Vitelli / Locked room to end locked rooms / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block -- Augustus Muir -- Kate Ellis -- Edward D. Hoch -- Nicholas Olde -- Ray Cummings -- Stephen Barr -- The The The The The The The Day the children vanished / Twelfth statue / All at once, no Alice / Beware of the trains / Locked bathroom / Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Episode of the Torment IV / Greaves' disappearance / House of haunts / Monkey trick / Ordinary hairpins / Phantom motor / Theft of the Bermuda penny / Room number 23 / Hugh Pentecost -- Stanley Ellin -- William Irish -- Edmund Crispin -- H. R. F. Keating -- Dashiell Hammett -- C. Daly King -- Julian Hawthorne -- Ellery Queen -- J. E. Gurdon -- E. C. Bentley -- Jacques Futrelle -- Edward D. Hoch -- Judson Philips -- The The The The The The The The The Man from nowhere / Laughing butcher / Sands of thyme / Flying death / Flying corpse / Flying hat / Edward D. Hoch -- Fredric Brown -- Michael Innes -- Samuel Hopkins Adams -- A. E. Martin -- Vincent Cornier -- The The The The The The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Problem of Cell 13 / Terribly strange bed / Two bottles of relish / Invisible man / Doomdorf mystery / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jacques Futrelle -- Wilkie Collins -- Lord Dunsany -- G. K. Chesterton -- Melville Davisson Post -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- The The A The The The The Poisoned dow '08 / Traveller's tale / Death at the Excelsior / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Margaret Frazer -- P. G. Wodehouse -- The A Wrong problem / Thing invisible / Department of impossible crimes / Aluminum dagger / Crewel needle / Doctor's case / Knife between brothers / Glass gravestone / Tea leaf / Flung-back lid / Crooked picture / Blind man's hood / John Dickson Carr -- William Hope Hodgson -- James Yaffe -- R. Austin Freeman -- Gerald Kersh -- Stephen King -- Manly Wade Wellman -- Joseph Commings -- Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- Peter Godfrey -- John Lutz -- Carter Dickson -- The The The The The A The The The The Nothing is impossible / Where have you gone, Sam Spade? / In a telephone cabinet / Death out of thin air / Dream / Border-line case / Bradmoor murder / Man who like toys / Ashcomb poor case / Little house at Croix-Rousse / Clayton Rawson -- Bill Pronzini -- G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole -- Stuart Towne -- Agatha Christie -- Margery Allingham -- Melville Davisson Post -- Leslie Charteris -- Hulbert Footner -- Georges Simenon -- The The The The The The Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards.
The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen 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.
0307743969 (paperback) 9780307743961 (paperback)
2014005685
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Mystery fiction.
Bird in the hand / Gulverbury diamonds / Fifth tube / Strange case of Steinkelwintz / Arsène Lupin in prison / Mystery of the strong room / No way out / Episode of the codex' curse / Erle Stanley Gardner -- David Durham -- Frederick Irving Anderson -- MacKinlay Kantor -- Maurice Leblanc -- L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- Dennis Lynds -- C. Daly King -- The The The The The The Burglar who smelled smoke / Kestar diamond case / Odour of sanctity / Problem of the old oak tree / Invisible weapon / Confession of Rosa Vitelli / Locked room to end locked rooms / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block -- Augustus Muir -- Kate Ellis -- Edward D. Hoch -- Nicholas Olde -- Ray Cummings -- Stephen Barr -- The The The The The The The Day the children vanished / Twelfth statue / All at once, no Alice / Beware of the trains / Locked bathroom / Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Episode of the Torment IV / Greaves' disappearance / House of haunts / Monkey trick / Ordinary hairpins / Phantom motor / Theft of the Bermuda penny / Room number 23 / Hugh Pentecost -- Stanley Ellin -- William Irish -- Edmund Crispin -- H. R. F. Keating -- Dashiell Hammett -- C. Daly King -- Julian Hawthorne -- Ellery Queen -- J. E. Gurdon -- E. C. Bentley -- Jacques Futrelle -- Edward D. Hoch -- Judson Philips -- The The The The The The The The The Man from nowhere / Laughing butcher / Sands of thyme / Flying death / Flying corpse / Flying hat / Edward D. Hoch -- Fredric Brown -- Michael Innes -- Samuel Hopkins Adams -- A. E. Martin -- Vincent Cornier -- The The The The The The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Problem of Cell 13 / Terribly strange bed / Two bottles of relish / Invisible man / Doomdorf mystery / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Edgar Allan Poe -- Jacques Futrelle -- Wilkie Collins -- Lord Dunsany -- G. K. Chesterton -- Melville Davisson Post -- Arthur Conan Doyle -- The The A The The The The Poisoned dow '08 / Traveller's tale / Death at the Excelsior / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Margaret Frazer -- P. G. Wodehouse -- The A Wrong problem / Thing invisible / Department of impossible crimes / Aluminum dagger / Crewel needle / Doctor's case / Knife between brothers / Glass gravestone / Tea leaf / Flung-back lid / Crooked picture / Blind man's hood / John Dickson Carr -- William Hope Hodgson -- James Yaffe -- R. Austin Freeman -- Gerald Kersh -- Stephen King -- Manly Wade Wellman -- Joseph Commings -- Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- Peter Godfrey -- John Lutz -- Carter Dickson -- The The The The The A The The The The Nothing is impossible / Where have you gone, Sam Spade? / In a telephone cabinet / Death out of thin air / Dream / Border-line case / Bradmoor murder / Man who like toys / Ashcomb poor case / Little house at Croix-Rousse / Clayton Rawson -- Bill Pronzini -- G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole -- Stuart Towne -- Agatha Christie -- Margery Allingham -- Melville Davisson Post -- Leslie Charteris -- Hulbert Footner -- Georges Simenon -- The The The The The The Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards.
The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen 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.
0307743969 (paperback) 9780307743961 (paperback)
2014005685
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Mystery fiction.