Classic Locked Room Mysteries

Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and 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?Locked-room mysteries 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, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.

Product details

• Authors: David Stuart Davies, Davies David Stuart
• Assisted by: David St. Davies (Editor), David Stuart Davies (Editor), Davi Stuart Davies (Editor), David Stuart Davies (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781909621374
• ISBN: 978-1-909621-37-4
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 158 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Classic crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry)