Classic Locked Room Mysteries
Title | Classic Locked Room Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | David Stuart Davies |
Publisher | Macmillan Collector's Library |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-07-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781909621374 |
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' - 'how was the crime done?' Featuring well-known sleuths from Sherlock Holmes to Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Such stories reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and G. K. Chesterton.
The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes
Title | The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Ashley |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1780333560 |
This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
Title | Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Asimov |
Publisher | Walker & Company |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802706805 |
An anthology by more than a dozen classic "locked room" mysteries presents short stories by such noted masters of the genre as Hecht, Carr, Poe, and Chesterton
Six Wakes
Title | Six Wakes PDF eBook |
Author | Mur Lafferty |
Publisher | Orbit |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2017-01-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316389668 |
In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer. Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently. . . Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow calls Mur's "breakout book".
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Title | The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | Otto Penzler |
Publisher | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | 962 |
Release | 2014-10-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307743969 |
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
Locked Room Murders
Title | Locked Room Murders PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Adey |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 2018-08 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9781720746508 |
Locked Room Murders is a bibliography containing a description of the problem and, separately, the solution to locked room and impossible crime novels and short stories.It has been a classic in the locked room pantheon for over 40 years, beginning with a 1972 article by Bob Adey in The Armchair Detective. The first edition of Locked Room Murders, published by Ferret Fantasy in 1979, covered 1280 titles. The 1991 second edition, published by Crossover Press, covered 2019 titles. Due to limited print runs, both editions have become prohibitively expensive. Locked Room International (LRI) is now making a revised version of the Second Edition available at an affordable price. Edited by Brian Skupin, LRI consultant and co-publisher of Mystery Scene magazine, this revised version contains the same 2019 titles, but with corrections and additional references which have appeared since 1991.Plans are in place to publish a Supplemental Edition in 2019, to include novels and short stories (including translations from sources outside the Anglosphere) published since 1991, films, TV series, graphic novels, and other media. It will not contain any of the titles in the Second Edition, Revised.
The Roman Hat Mystery
Title | The Roman Hat Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Ellery Queen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | New York (N.Y.) |
ISBN |