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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

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The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries

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edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler

the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled

Murders in the Rue morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- A terribly strange bed / Wikie 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 ban / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The wrong problem / John Dickson Carr -- The thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson -- Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe -- The doctor's case / Stephen King -- A knife between two brothers / Manly Wade Wellman -- The glass gravestone / Josephy Cummings -- The tea leaf / Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- The flung-back Lid / Peter Godfrey -- The Crooked picture / John Lutz -- Blind man's hood / Carter Dickson -- 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 Corimer -- The day the children vanished / Hugh Pentecost -- The twelfth statue / Stanley Ellin -- All at once, no Alice / William Irish -- Beware of the trains / Edmund Crisdpin -- The locked bathroom / H. R. F. Keating -- Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Dashiell Hammett -- The episode of the Torment IV / C. Daly King -- Greave's disappearance / Justin Hawthorne -- The house of haunts / Ellery Queen -- The money trick / J. E. Gurdon -- The ordinary hairpins / E. C. Bentley -- The Phantom motor / Jacques Futrelle -- The theft of the Bermuda penny / Judson Philips -- The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Black & Lawrence Block -- The Kestar diamond case / Augustus Muir -- The Odour sanctity / Kate Ellis -- The problem of the old oak tree / Edward D. Hoch -- The invisile weapon / Nicholas Olde -- The confession of Rosa Vitelli / Ray Cummings -- The Locked room to end locked rooms / Stephen BarrNothing is impossible / Clayton Rawson -- Where have you gone, Sam Spade / Bill Pronzini -- In the 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 liked toys / Leslie Charteris -- The Ashcomb poor case / Hulbert Footner -- The Little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- The Bird in the hand / Erle Stanley Gardner -- The Gulverbury diamonds / David Durham -- The fifth tube / Frederick Irving ASnderson -- The strange case of Steinkelwintz / MacKinlay Kantor -- Arsene 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 poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -- Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse -- Waiting for Godstow / Martin edwards