A Mysterious Review of The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries by Otto Penzler, editor. A Short Story Collection.
Review summary: Sixty-eight superbly crafted stories are included in this collection, subtitled "the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled". Indeed it is! Though large and somewhat unwieldy to hold and read, this is a must have collection for all fans of mystery and crime fiction. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Otto Penzler, editor
A Short Story Collection
Vintage Crime (October 2014)
Publisher synopsis: 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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