The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

by Mike Ashley (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780333564
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Series:	Mammoth Books , #84
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	891,003
File size:	824 KB

About the Author

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He is the author of two books on the kings and queens of Britain. He lives in Chatham, Kent.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction: Hey, Presto!	xi
	Waiting for Godstow	1
	The Odour of Sanctity	19
	A Traveller's Tale	36
	The Silver Curtain	58
	The Stolen Saint Simon	75
	The Problem of the Crowded Cemetery	98
	Death Rides the Elevator	117
	The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke	134
	No Way Out	156
	Off the Face of the Earth	170
	Murder Strips Off	196
	Out of His Head	215
	The Doomdorf Mystery	228
	The Adventure of the Jacobean House	241
	The Motor Boat	268
	Murder in the Air	285
	The Pulp Connection	306
	Stag Night	324
	Mr Strang Accepts a Challenge	349
	The Legs That Walked	367
	The Next Big Thing	380
	The Second Drug	402
	Ice Elation	429
	The Mystery of the Taxi Cab	453
	Heartstopper	472
	Blind Eyes	483
	The Amorous Corpse	504
	Afterword: Impossible Crimes	520
	Copyright and Acknowledgments	530

Editorial Reviews

Twenty-nine stories by authors such as Peter Tremayne, Kate Ellis, and Edward Marston serve as examples of the self-explanatory title. Readers who made The Mammoth Book of Royal Whodunits and The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits popular will probably like this as well. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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