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Librivox Mystery BookshelfIsrael Zangwill, Jacques Futrelle,G.K. Chesterton and Impossible Crimes |
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Israel Zangwill's classic novella "The Big Bow Mystery" (1891) is the flagship of the modern locked room story. In these tales, a crime is committed in a room that is locked from the inside. How could any murderer have committed this crime, and then escaped? It seems impossible. This sort of puzzle is one of the main categories of modern mystery fiction. Writers have devoted considerable ingenuity to developing solutions to the locked room murder. Locked room puzzles climax with the work of John Dickson Carr. A full detailed history of locked room fiction can be found in Robert C. S. Adey's Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes. This book contains a bibliography, listing over 2,000 impossible crime novels and short stories. (Mike Grost) Israel Zangwill
The
Big Bow Mystery - Novel
Cheating the Gallows - Short story - 9th story in collection
G. K. Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades - Short story collection
The Innocence of Father Brown - Short
story collection
The Wisdom of Father Brown - Short
story collection
The Man Who Knew Too Much - Short story collection
Jacques Futrelle
My
First Experience With the Great Logician
- Short story - 1st story in collection
The
Thinking Machine - Short story - 10th story in collection
Thomas W. and Mary E. Hanshew
The Riddle
of the 5:28 - Short story - 5th story in collection
The Rope
of Fear - Short story - 7th story in collection
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces - Short story collection
Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Novel
Edgar Wallace
The Clue of the Twisted Candle - Novel
The
Daffodil Mystery - Novel
The
Angel of Terror - Novel -
2nd
version
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