The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes And Impossible Mysteries

by Ashley, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780786718931
• ISBN10: 0786718935
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-17
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

From the likes of Robert Randisi, Peter Crowther, and Max Rittenberg, these 30 stories of bizarre and impossible crimes will fascinate and intrigue the reader who grapples with their intricate puzzles. A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick. A man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only onceover 200 years ago. A man enters a cable-car alone, and is visible for the entire journey, only to be found dead when he reaches the bottom. A man receives mail in response to letters apparently written by him after his death. The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries is a stunning collection of brand new and previously unpublished stories, as well as many stories from rare mystery journals appearing for the first time in book form.

Author Biography

Mike Ashley is editor of The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries, and several volumes of The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, as well as numerous other crime anthologies.

Table of Contents

Copyright & Acknowledgments	vii
Perfectly Impossible	1	(2)
Mike Ashley
An Almost Perfect Crime	3	(22)
William F. Smith
The X Street Murders	25	(18)
Joseph Commings
Locked in Death	43	(20)
Mary Reed
Eric Mayer
Wingless Pegasus	63	(16)
Gillian Linscott
Duel of Shadows	79	(17)
Vincent Cornier
The 45 Steps	96	(32)
Peter Crowther
Contrary to the Evidence	128	(14)
Douglas Newton
The Impossible Footprint	142	(13)
William Brittain
Three Blind Rats	155	(17)
Laird Long
Death and the Rope Trick	172	(16)
John Basye Price
The Problem of the Black Cloister	188	(16)
Edward D. Hoch
A Shower of Daggers	204	(19)
Edward D. Hoch
The Hook	223	(17)
Robert Randisi
The Mystery of the Sevenoaks Tunnel	240	(14)
Max Rittenberg
The Red Ring	254	(13)
William Le Queux
Observable Justice	267	(31)
Will Murray
On the Rocks	298	(12)
J. A. Konrath
Eternally Yours	310	(17)
H. Edward Hunsburger
Murder in Monkeyland	327	(15)
Lois Gresh
Robert Weinberg
No Killer Has Wings	342	(13)
Arthur Porges
Benning's School for Boys	355	(23)
Richard A. Lupoff
The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem	378	(20)
C. Daly King
The Impossible Murder of Dr Satanus	398	(15)
William Krohn
The Stuart Sapphire	413	(21)
Peter Tremayne
The Flung-Back Lid	434	(18)
Peter Godfrey
The Poisoned Bowl	452	(34)
Forrest Rosaire
Proof of Guilt	486	(10)
Bill Pronzini
Slaughterhouse	496	(15)
Barry Longyear
The Birdman of Tonypandy	511
Bernard Knight