{"product_id":"9780307743961","title":"The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Featuring\u003cbr\u003e   • Unconventional means of murder \u003cbr\u003e   • Pilfered jewels \u003cbr\u003e   • Shocking solutions \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Includes\u003cbr\u003e   • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and            the first locked-room mystery \u003cbr\u003e   • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and       Stanley Ellin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA VINTAGE CRIME\/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024253042928,"sku":"9780307743961","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307743961_p0.jpg?v=1763673377","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307743961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}