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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

A Short Story Collection by Otto Penzler, editor

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor

Synopsis (from the publisher): Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form — a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth — this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances.

Among these pages you'll find stories with evocative titles like "The Flying Death", "The Man From Nowhere", "A Terribly Strange Bed", and "The Theft of the Bermuda Penny", not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, and many more.

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor — A Short Story Collection

Publisher: Vintage Crime
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74396-1
Publication Date: October 2014
List Price: $25.00

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