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The realm of the impossible : an anthology / edited by John Pugmire & Brian Skupin ; foreword by Otto Penzler.
LIBRA PS648.D4 R43 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Crime.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 430 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Locked Room International, 2017.
- Summary:
- Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most friendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for the first time, many have never been anthologized, and a few classics are included. Also included are 12 short anecodotes of real-life impossibilities: how can a man locked in his room without alcohol get drunk every night? How can heavy stone coffins in a sealed crypt be moved? How can hundreds of rare French books be stolen from an ancient library? These are just a few of the actual impossibilities that are explained in The Realm of the Impossible.
- Contents:
- France: Jacob's ladder / Paul Halter
- United Kingdom: Cyanide in the sun / Christianna Brand
- Real life impossibility: United States / Louis Calhern's Weakness
- Sweden: Windfall / Ulf Durling
- Czech Republic: The case of the horizontal trajectory / Joseph Skvorecky
- Real life impossibility: Barbados / Moving Coffins
- Ireland: The mystery of the sleeping car express / Freeman Willis Crofts
- Australia: Dead man in the scrub / Mary Fortune
- Real life impossibility: Austria / Bridge to Nowhere
- United States: The hidden law / Melville Davisson Post
- France: House call / Alexandre Dumas
- Japan: The locked house of Pythagoras / Soji Shimada.
- ISBN:
- 9781545339220
- 1545339228
- OCLC:
- 1003210935
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