The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries : the most complete collection of impossible-crime stories ever assembled
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Penzler, Otto, editor.
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New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.

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Published
New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.
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xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English

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Edgar Award{u2013}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 {u2014} a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth {u2014} 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Penzler, O. (2014). The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries: the most complete collection of impossible-crime stories ever assembled . Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Penzler, Otto. 2014. The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-room Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Impossible-crime Stories Ever Assembled. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Penzler, Otto. The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-room Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Impossible-crime Stories Ever Assembled Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Penzler, Otto. The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-room Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Impossible-crime Stories Ever Assembled Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.

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