Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
โ Scribed by Martin H. Greenberg (ed); Isaac Asimov (ed); Charles G. Waugh (ed)
- Book ID
- 108548339
- Publisher
- Walker
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 465 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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.
Contents
Introduction: "No one done it" / Isaac Asimov
The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe
The adventure of the speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrell
The light at three o'clock / MacKinlay Kanton
Murder at the automat / Cornell Woolrich
The exact opposite / Erle Stanley Gardner
The blind spot / Barry Perowne
The operator / Jack Wodhams
The Leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch
Vanishing act / Bill Pronzini and Michael Kurland
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
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