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Golden age locked room mysteries / Otto Penzler, editor.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Golden
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library
- American mystery classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 492 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Penzler Publishers, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period's purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a corpse discovered in a windowless room locked from the inside, perhaps), lays out a set of increasingly confounding clues, and swiftly delivers an ingenious and satisfying solution. During the years between the two world wars, the best writers in the genre strove to outdo one another with unfathomable crime scenes and brilliant explanations, and the puzzling and clever tales they produced in those brief decades remain unmatched to this day. Among the Americans, some of these authors are still household names, inextricably linked to the locked room mysteries they devised: John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer. Others, associated with different styles of crime fiction, also produced great works--authors including Fredric Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, Craig Rice, and Cornell Woolrich. All of these and more can be found in Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries, selected by Edgar Award-winning mystery expert and anthologist Otto Penzler. Featuring a delightful mix of well-known writers and unjustly-forgotten masters, the fourteen tales included herein highlight the best of the American impossible crime story, promising hours of entertainment for armchair sleuths young and old."--provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Elsewhen / Anthony Boucher
- Whistler's murder / Fredric Brown
- The third bullet / John Dickson Carr
- Fingerprint ghost / Joseph Commings
- The calico dog / Mignon G. Eberhart
- The exact opposite / Erle Stanley Gardner
- The light at three o'clock / MacKinlay Kantor
- The episode of the nail and the requiem / C. Daly King
- The riddle of the yellow canary / Stuart Palmer
- The house of haunts / Ellery Queen
- Off the face of the Earth / Clayton Rawson
- His heart could break / Craig Rice
- Murder among the magicians / Manly Wade Wellman
- Murder at the automat / Cornell Woolrich.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Contains:
- Container of: Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968. Elsewhen.
- Container of: Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972. Whistler's murder.
- Container of: Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977. Third bullet.
- Container of: Commings, Joseph, 1913-1992. Fingerprint ghost.
- Container of: Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996. Calico dog.
- Container of: Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970. Exact oposite.
- Container of: Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977. Light at three o'clock.
- Container of: King, C. Daly, 1895-1963. Episode of the nail and the requiem.
- Container of: Palmer, Stuart, 1905-1968. Riddle of the yellow canary.
- Container of: Queen, Ellery, 1916-2013. House of haunts.
- Container of: Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971. Off the face of the Earth.
- Container of: Rice, Craig, 1908-1957. His heart could break.
- Container of: Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986. Murder among the magicians.
- Container of: Woolrich, Cornell, 1903-1968. Murder at the automat.
- ISBN:
- 9781613163283
- 1613163282
- 9781613163290
- 1613163290
- OCLC:
- 1286366291
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