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All but impossible! An anthology of locked room and impossible crime stories
Ticknor & Fields
1981
A collection of short stories. Signed by the editor on the front free endpaper.
The art of the impossible: an extravaganza of miraculous murders, fantastic felonies and incredible criminals
Xanadu
1990
A collection of impossible crime short stories.
Death from a top hat
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
Dr Cesare Sabat is found strangled, spread-eagled in a chalk pentacle, inside his locked apartment.
Fell and foul play
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1991
A collection of short stories including previously unpublished material.
In spite of thunder: a Dr. Fell detective novel
Hamish Hamilton
1960
Somebody is committing murder with an invisible weapon.
John Dickson Carr's The three coffins: a hollow victory?
CADS
2011
An assessment of what is often described as the finest locked-room mystery ever written.
Merrivale holds the key: two classic locked-room murders: The Plague Court murders; The Red Widow murders
International Polygonics
1995
Facsimile reprints of two of Dickson's classic tales, with an introduction by Douglas G. Greene
Mortal mischief: volume one of the Liebermann papers
Century
2005
A beautiful medium is found shot dead in a locked room.
Murder in the submarine zone
Tom Stacey
1972
An apparently invisible murderer is active onboard an ocean liner.
The peacock feather murders
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1987
A man is found shot dead in a room whose only door has been guarded and whose only window (forty feet from the ground) was under observation.
The skeleton in the clock: another adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale
William Heinemann Ltd
1949
The accidental death of Sir George Fleet becomes a murder investigation when new evidence is uncovered.
The skeleton in the clock : another adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale
William Heinemann Ltd
1973
The accidental death of Sir George Fleet becomes a murder investigation when new evidence is uncovered. From the library of Michael Hastilow.
Too many magicians
Macdonald
1968
The Chief Sorcerer for the City of London is found dead in a locked room, with the only key to the door lying near his body.
The White Priory murders
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1991
A cold-blooded murder has taken place in a house surrounded by unmarked snow.
Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown in invisible death: a case from the files of Omega
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1975
The men of Omega were up against the Grim Reaper who could reach helpless victims behind walls and closed doors.
