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All the Crime in the World: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Puzzles
All the Crime in the World: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Puzzles
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Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Puzzles from Across the Globe
All the Crime in the World: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Puzzles from Across the Globe
Can you solve the unsolvable?
A locked room. A murder with no possible method and no possible escape. The impossible crime is the purest puzzle in all of mystery fiction, and All the Crime in the World delivers fourteen of them, each one crafted by a different modern master of the form.
Editors Gigi Pandian and Tom Mead have assembled writers from around the world, each contributing an original, fully clued mystery designed to fool you fairly. The international lineup includes authors from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and the US.
Featuring stories by Victor Bonini, James Scott Byrnside, Shelly Dickson Carr, S.A. Cosby, Anne van Doorn, Martin Edwards, Sulari Gentill, Paul Halter, Christopher Huang, Vaseem Khan, Josh Pachter, Masaya Yamaguchi, Ovidia Yu, and a brand-new collaboration from the editors.
The clues are all there. The solutions are entirely fair. Whether you crack them or not is up to you.
Mead (The House at Devil’s Neck) and Pandian (The Library Game) exalt the puzzle-based mystery with this stellar anthology of 14 original short stories.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a locked room mystery? A locked room mystery is a crime puzzle in which a murder or other impossible event appears to happen in a sealed space with no obvious method of entry or escape.
What is the locked room theory? The locked room theory refers to the idea that an impossible crime can still be solved through careful attention to clues, timing, and hidden methods.
What is a locked room? In mystery fiction, a locked room is a setting that seems sealed or inaccessible, creating the challenge at the center of the puzzle.
What is a locked room game? A locked room game is a puzzle or mystery experience inspired by impossible crimes and escape room-style clue solving.
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