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As If By Magic

John Dickson Carr | Carter Dickson | E.C. Bentley | Will Scott | Margery Allingham | Vincent Cornier | Christianna Brand | Michael Gilbert | Anthony Wynne | Hal Pink
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Author_Anthony Wynne
Author_Carter Dickson
Author_Christianna Brand
Author_E.C. Bentley
Author_Hal Pink
Author_John Dickson Carr
Author_Margery Allingham
Author_Michael Gilbert
Author_Vincent Cornier
Author_Will Scott
British Isles
Category=FFC
Category=FFD
Category=FFJ
Category=FFP
detective
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Golden Age mystery
inspector
literary
locked-room
London
traditional British mystery
whodunit

Product details

  • ISBN 9780712355636
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2025
  • Publisher: British Library Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.
About Anthony Wynne | Carter Dickson | Christianna Brand | E.C. Bentley | Hal Pink | John Dickson Carr | Margery Allingham | Michael Gilbert | Vincent Cornier | Will Scott

Martin Edwards is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics. He is a CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club. He has researched and explored the history of the crime and mystery genre in titles such as The Golden Age of Murder, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books published by the British Library and The Life of Crime.

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