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 spec
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
โ Scribed by Edgar Allen Poe; Arthur Conan Doyle; Jacques Futrelle; MacKinley Kantor; Cornell Woolrich; Erle Stanley Gardner; Barry Perowne; Isaac Asimov; Charles G. Waugh; Martin H. Greenberg
- Book ID
- 109213695
- Publisher
- Walker & Co BCE
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 464 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
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