Miraculous mysteries
Subtitle: locked room mysteries and impossible crimes
By: edited by Martin Edwards
Edition: First US trade paperback edition.
Series: British Library crime classics; British Library crime classics
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781464207440
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Other titles: Locked room mysteries and impossible crimes
Description: Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the 'golden age of murder' between the two world wars. But the tradition goes back to the days of Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, and impossible crime stories have been written by such luminaries as Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham.    This anthology celebrates their work, alongside long-hidden gems by less familiar writers. Together these stories demonstrate the range and high accomplishment of the classic British impossible crime story over more than half a century.
Table of contents: title: The lost special  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The thing invisivble  -- William Hope Hodgson; title: The case of the tragedies in the Greek room  -- Sax Rohmer; title: The aluminum dagger  -- R. Austin Freeman; title: The miracle of moon crescent  -- G.K. Chesterton; title: The invisible weapon  -- Nicholas Olde; title: The diary of death  -- Marten Cumberland; title: The broadcast murder  -- Grenville Robbins; title: The music-room  -- Sapper; title: Death at 8:30   -- Christopher St. John Sprigg; title: Too clever by half  -- G.D.H. and Margaret Cole; title: Locked in  -- E. Charles Vivian; title: The haunted policeman  -- Dorothy L. Sayers; title: The sands of thyme  -- Michael Innes; title: Beware of the trains  -- Edmund Crispin; title: The Villa Marie Celeste -- Margery Allingham.