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Golden age locked room mysteries
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Here are fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. Locked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They always begin with a seemingly impossible crime - a body found inside a windowless room that's been locked from the inside, for example - and then end with an ingenious and satisfying solution. This unique collection features fourteen of the finest locked-room mysteries from some of the best writers in the genre, including household names like John Dickson-Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer, Frederic Brown and Cornell Woolrich.
- Genres
- Crime
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 9781804999448
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