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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.
