β Scribed by Ashley, Mike
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
****Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers
Presenting 30 impossible mysteries and bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. The delight in these stories is unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth happened.
Stories include:
. A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick.
. a man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years ago.
. A man enters a cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead when he reaches the bottom.
. A man vanishes at the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away.
. a dead man continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him after he'd died.
The anthology includes several brand new stories never previously published, plus a range of extremely rare stories, many...
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CONTENTS: Foreword Introduction HEY, PRESTO! Mike Ashley WAITING FOR GODSTOW Martin Edwards THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY Kate Ellis A TRAVELLERβS TALE Margaret Frazer THE SILVER CURTAIN John Dickson Carr THE STOLEN SAINT SIMON Michael Kurland THE PROBLEM OF THE CROWDED CEMETERY Edward D. Hoch
### Amazon.com Review **Penzler Pick, February 2001:** The very thing that first hooked me on mysteries long ago is the element most on display in this fat and satisfying volume: amazement. Not whodunit or why, but *how*. And that really means *wow*, as in, "Wow, I can't believe what I just read!"
### Amazon.com Review **Penzler Pick, February 2001:** The very thing that first hooked me on mysteries long ago is the element most on display in this fat and satisfying volume: amazement. Not whodunit or why, but _how_. And that really means _wow_ , as in, "Wow, I can't believe what I just read!"
### Amazon.com Review **Penzler Pick, February 2001:** The very thing that first hooked me on mysteries long ago is the element most on display in this fat and satisfying volume: amazement. Not whodunit or why, but *how*. And that really means *wow*, as in, "Wow, I can't believe what I just read!"