num_pages: 512
description: 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 &amp; Robert Weinberg --The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block &amp; 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. &amp; 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.
language: English
title: The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes
titlecomplete: The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes
genres: Mystery, Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 217
publisher: Robinson Publishing