Classic Locked Room Mysteries

by David Stuart Davies, David Stuart Davies (Introduction)

Overview

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' - 'how was the crime done?' Featuring well-known sleuths from Sherlock Holmes to Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed?

Such stories reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and G. K. Chesterton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909621374
Publisher:	Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date:	07/19/2016
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	3.90(w) x 6.12(h) x 0.87(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

An internationally recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies is the editor of the crime fiction magazine Sherlock and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes. He also edits the Crime Writers' Association's monthly Red Herrings magazine. Forests of the Night was his first Johnny Hawke novel. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.

An internationally recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies is the editor of the crime fiction magazine Sherlock and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes. He also edits the Crime Writers' Association's monthly Red Herrings magazine. Forests of the Night was his first Johnny Hawke novel. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Authors

R. Austin Freeman - The Aluminium Dagger

Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Jacque Futrelle - The Problem of Cell 13

Lord Dunsany - Two Bottles of Relish

Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace - The Tea Leaf

Howel Evans - The Mystery of the Taxi-Cab

Wilkie Collins - A Terribly Strange Bed

William Hope Hodgson - The Thing Invisible

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

David Stuart Davies - The Curzon Street Conundrum

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Out of His Head

Melville Davisson Post - The Doomdorf Mystery

C. N. & A. M. Williamson - The Adventure of the Jacobean House

G. K. Chesterton - The Invisible Man

Jacque Futrelles - The Motor Boat