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poohbear_nc · 04-07-2011, 07:11 PM

I'm having a ball reading classic mysteries now released as ebooks from Langtail Press and in pbook from Rue Morgue press.

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson) really did cover the entire breadth of "locked room mysteries" and "impossible murders" - sometimes going to great extremes to explain the inexplicable. The solution to the murder in "The Crooked Hinge" is the most extreme attempt yet to explain how a man could be murdered in plain view of witnesses - none of whom saw the murderer.

Spoiler:

I shall continue on, with a liberal helping of Nero Wolfe to add spice to this heady experience.

04-07-2011, 07:11 PM	#8849
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,869 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I'm having a ball reading classic mysteries now released as ebooks from Langtail Press and in pbook from Rue Morgue press. John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson) really did cover the entire breadth of "locked room mysteries" and "impossible murders" - sometimes going to great extremes to explain the inexplicable. The solution to the murder in "The Crooked Hinge" is the most extreme attempt yet to explain how a man could be murdered in plain view of witnesses - none of whom saw the murderer. Spoiler: The murderer lost his legs when the Titanic sank, and had prosthetic legs he could remove and scuttle about below eye level. I shall continue on, with a liberal helping of Nero Wolfe to add spice to this heady experience.