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Gary wrote: "please add additional missing details to 9780712355636Title - As If By Magic: Locked Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
Author - various (edited by Martin Edwards)
page count - 349 (fro..."
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Title - As If By Magic: Locked Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
Author - various (edited by Martin Edwards)
page count - 349 (from my copy of this edition)
Publisher - British Library
publication date - 10th September 2025
synopsis - 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.