The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.Contents: Foreword / David Renwick --Introduction: Hey, presto! / Mike Ashley --Waiting for Godstow / Martin Edwards --The odour of sanctity / Kate Ellis --A traveller's tale / Margaret Frazer --The silver curtain / John Dickson Carr --The stolen Saint Simon / Michael Kurland --The problem of the crowded cemetery / Edward D. Hoch --Death rides the elevator / Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg --The burglar who smelled smoke / Lynne Wood Block & Lawrence Block --No way out / Michael Collins --Off the face of the earth / Clayton Rawson --Murder strips off / Amy Myers --Out of his head / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post --The adventure of the Jacobean house / C.N. & A.M. Williamson --The motor boat / Jacques Futrelle --Murder in the air / Peter Tremayne --The pulp connection / Bill Pronzini --Stag night / Marilyn Todd --Mr Strang accepts a challenge / William Brittain --The legs that walked / H.R.F. Keating --The next big thing / Peter T. Garratt --The second drug / Richard A. Lupoff --Ice elation / Susanna Gregory --The mystery of the taxi-cab / Howel Evans --Heartstopper / Frank M. Robinson --Blind eyes / Edward Marston --The amorous corpse / Peter Lovesey --Afterword: Impossible crimes / Mike Ashley.