Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (An American Mystery Classic)
eBook - 2022
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, inextricab...ly 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...
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Penzler Publishers
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 1 GB |
ISBN | 9781613163306 |
Release Date | 7/19/2022 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B09M19PLW1 |
Release Date | 7/19/2022 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781613163306 |
Release Date | 7/19/2022 |