Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

✍ Scribed by Otto Penzler

• Book ID: 110627984
• Publisher: Penzler Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 644 KB
• Series: American Mystery Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781613163306

✦ Synopsis

Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form

For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period's purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a corpse discovered in a windowless room locked from the inside, perhaps), lays out a set of increasingly confounding clues, and swiftly delivers an ingenious and satisfying solution. During the years between the two world wars, the best writers in the genre strove to outdo one another with unfathomable crime scenes and brilliant explanations, and the puzzling and clever tales they produced in those brief decades remain unmatched to this day.

Among the Americans, some of these authors are still household names, inextricably linked to the locked room mysteries they devised: John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer. Others, associated with different styles of crime fiction, also produced great works—authors including Fredric Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, Craig Rice, and Cornell Woolrich.

Contents:

Elsewhen by Anthony Boucher
Whistler’s Murder by Fredric Brown
The Third Bullet by John Dickson Carr
Fingerprint Ghost by Joseph Commings
The Calico Dog by Mignon G. Eberhart
The Exact Opposite by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Light at Three O’Clock by MacKinlay Kantor
The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem by C. Daly King
The Riddle of the Yellow Canary by Stuart Palmer
The House of Haunts by Ellery Queen
Off the Face of the Earth by Clayton Rawson
His Heart Could Break by Craig Rice
Murder Among Magicians by Manley Wade Wellman
Murder at the Automat by Cornell Woolrich