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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014Description: xv, 941 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0307743969 (paperback)
  • 9780307743961 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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 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 --
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 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 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 Poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A Traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -- Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse --
The Wrong problem / John Dickson Carr -- The Thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson -- Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe -- The Aluminum 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 --
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 --
Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery Penzler Otto Available 33111007995778
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form--a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth--this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you'll find stories with evocative titles like "The Flying Death", "The Man From Nowhere", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "The Theft of the Bermuda Penny", not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, and many more.

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

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 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 --

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 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 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 Poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A Traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -- Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse --

The Wrong problem / John Dickson Carr -- The Thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson -- Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe -- The Aluminum 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 --

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 --

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.

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