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The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries : the most complete collection of impossible-crime stories ever assembled / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.

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New York : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC, 2014.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

9780307743961 (paperback)

0307743969 (paperback)

xv, 941 pages ; 24 cm

The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- A Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The Two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- The Invisible man / G. K. Chesterton -- The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band / Arthur Conan Doyle --

The Wrong problem / John Dickson Carr -- The Thing invisible / William Hope Hodgson -- Department of impossible crimes / James Yaffe -- The Aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman -- The Crewel needle / Gerald Kersh -- The Doctor's case / Stephen King -- A Knife between brothers / Manly Wade Wellman -- The Glass gravestone / Joseph Commings -- The Tea leaf / Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace -- The Flung-back lid / Peter Godfrey -- The Crooked picture / John Lutz -- Blind man's hood / Carter Dickson --

The Man from nowhere / Edward D. Hoch -- The Laughing butcher / Fredric Brown -- The Sands of thyme / Michael Innes -- The Flying death / Samuel Hopkins Adams -- The Flying corpse / A. E. Martin -- The Flying hat / Vincent Cornier --

The Day the children vanished / Hugh Pentecost -- The Twelfth statue / Stanley Ellin -- All at once, no Alice / William Irish -- Beware of the trains / Edmund Crispin -- The Locked bathroom / H. R. F. Keating -- Mike, Alec, and Rufus / Dashiell Hammett -- The Episode of the Torment IV / C. Daly King -- Greaves' disappearance / Julian Hawthorne -- The House of haunts / Ellery Queen -- The Monkey trick / J. E. Gurdon -- The Ordinary hairpins / E. C. Bentley -- The Phantom motor / Jacques Futrelle -- The Theft of the Bermuda penny / Edward D. Hoch -- Room number 23 / Judson Philips --

The Burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block -- The Kestar diamond case / Augustus Muir -- The Odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis -- The Problem of the old oak tree / Edward D. Hoch -- The Invisible weapon / Nicholas Olde -- The Confession of Rosa Vitelli / Ray Cummings -- The Locked room to end locked rooms / Stephen Barr --

Nothing is impossible / Clayton Rawson -- Where have you gone, Sam Spade? / Bill Pronzini -- In a telephone cabinet / G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole -- Death out of thin air / Stuart Towne -- The Dream / Agatha Christie -- The Border-line case / Margery Allingham -- The Bradmoor murder / Melville Davisson Post -- The Man who like toys / Leslie Charteris -- The Ashcomb poor case / Hulbert Footner -- The Little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon --

The Bird in the hand / Erle Stanley Gardner -- The Gulverbury diamonds / David Durham -- The Fifth tube / Frederick Irving Anderson -- The Strange case of Steinkelwintz / MacKinlay Kantor -- Arsène Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc -- The Mystery of the strong room / L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- No way out / Dennis Lynds -- The Episode of the codex' curse / C. Daly King --

The Poisoned dow '08 / Dorothy L. Sayers -- A Traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer -- Death at the Excelsior / P. G. Wodehouse --

Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards.

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