A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL, OCTOBER 2014
Introductions and compilation copyright © 2014 by Otto Penzler
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries : the Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.
pages cm
1. Detective and mystery stories, American. 2. Detective and mystery stories, English. I. Penzler, Otto, editor of compilation.
PS648.D4B54 2014 813.087208—dc23 2014005685
Vintage/Black Lizard Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-74396-1
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8041-7279-0
Book design by Christopher Zucker
Cover image by Lyman Anderson, courtesy of Heritage Auctions: www.HA.com
Cover design: Joe Montgomery
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