Description: Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the formFor 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.Review"The greatest feat of prestidigitation here, in fact, may be the lack of overlap... Lock your door and enjoy."― Kirkus"Superb . . . This is a perfect introduction for those new to this particular subgenre."― Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEWAbout the AuthorOtto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.Publisher : American Mystery Classics Language : EnglishPaperback : 508 pagesISBN-13 : 978-1613163290Item Weight : 1.18 poundsDimensions : 5.3 x 1.4 x 8 inches
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Book Title: Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries
Book Series: American Mystery Classics
Narrative Type: Fiction
Item Length: 8in
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Intended Audience: Adults
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Novel
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1.4in
Author: Otto Penzler
Genre: Fiction, Mystery Collection
Topic: Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Item Width: 5.3in
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 508 Pages
