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. Claire Doherty practised her grief-stricken expression in the mirror.