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The Mammoth Book
of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006).
Edited by Mike
Ashley.
Published by
Running Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
0786718935
ISBN-13:
978-0786718931
Description:
Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers.
This ingenious
new anthology from Mike Ashley presents nearly 30 impossible mysteries and
bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. Among them are some crimes
so impossible that they’re near perfect, and others so perfect that they’re
impossible to solve.
In all, the
delight is in unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth
happened.
Cases include:
A man in an
all-glass phone booth, clearly visible and with no one near him, is killed by
an ice pick.
Someone sitting
alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years
ago.
A man enters a
cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead
when he reaches the bottom.
A man vanishes at
the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away.
A dead man
continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him
after he'd died.
The stories include several brand new masterpieces as well as lesser known rare gems – from such names as Robert Randisi, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph Commings, Peter Tremayne, Bill Pronzini and Gillian Linscott.
