The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

(By Mike Ashley)

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Author Mike Ashley

“Book Descriptions: This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.

Contents:
Foreword / David Renwick --
Introduction: Hey, presto! / Mike Ashley --
Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards --
The odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis --
A traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer --
The silver curtain / John Dickson Carr --
The stolen Saint Simon / Michael Kurland --
The problem of the crowded cemetery / Edward D. Hoch --
Death rides the elevator / Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg --
The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block --
No way out / Michael Collins --
Off the face of the earth / Clayton Rawson --
Murder strips off / Amy Myers --
Out of his head / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post --
The adventure of the Jacobean house / C.N. & A.M. Williamson --
The motor boat / Jacques Futrelle --
Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne --
The pulp connection / Bill Pronzini --
Stag night / Marilyn Todd --
Mr Strang accepts a challenge / William Brittain --
The legs that walked / H.R.F. Keating --
The next big thing / Peter T. Garratt --
The second drug / Richard A. Lupoff --
Ice elation / Susanna Gregory --
The mystery of the taxi-cab / Howel Evans --
Heartstopper / Frank M. Robinson --
Blind eyes / Edward Marston --
The amorous corpse / Peter Lovesey --
Afterword: Impossible crimes / Mike Ashley.”