The Locked-room Mysteries by Otto Penzler -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright page Dedication page Contents

Introduction Familiar as the Rose in Spring

The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Problem of Cell 13 A Terribly Strange Bed The Two Bottles of Relish The Invisible Man The Doomdorf Mystery The Adventure of the Speckled Band

This was the Unkindest Cut of All

The Wrong Problem The Thing Invisible Department of Impossible Crimes The Aluminium Dagger The Crewel Needle The Doctor’s Case A Knife Between Brothers The Glass Gravestone The Tea Leaf The Flung-Back Lid The Crooked Picture Blind Man’s Hood

Footprints in the Sands of Time

The Man from Nowhere The Laughing Butcher The Sands of Thyme The Flying Death The Flying Corpse The Flying Hat

And we Missed it, Lost Forever

The Day the Children Vanished The Twelfth Statue All at Once, No Alice Beware of the Trains The Locked Bathroom Mike, Alec, and Rufus The Episode of the Torment IV Greaves’ Disappearance The House of Haunts The Monkey Trick The Ordinary Hairpins The Phantom Motor The Theft of the Bermuda Penny Room Number 23

How Easily is Murder Discovered

The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke The Kestar Diamond Case The Odour of Sanctity The Problem of the Old Oak Tree The Invisible Weapon The Confession of Rosa Vitelli The Locked Room to End Locked Rooms

Shoot if you Must

Nothing is Impossible Where have you Gone, Sam Spade? In a Telephone Cabinet Death Out of Thin Air The Dream The Border-Line Case The Bradmoor Murder The Man who Liked Toys The Ashcomb Poor Case The Little House at Croix-Rousse

Stolen Sweets are Best

The Bird in the Hand The Gulverbury Diamonds The Fifth Tube The Strange Case Of Steinkelwintz Arséne Lupin in Prison The Mystery of the Strong Room No Way Out The Episode of the Codex’ Curse

One Man’s Poison, Signor, is Another’s Meat

The Poisoned Dow ’08 A Traveller’s Tale Death at the Excelsior

Our Final Hope is Flat Despair

Waiting for Godstow