The Locked Room Mysteries

This set gathers three early twentieth-century crime novels built around apparently impossible crimes. Edgar Wallace's tale of four vigilantes who threaten a cabinet minister, Gaston Leroux's case of an attack inside a locked laboratory room, and John Dickson Carr's puzzle of a man shot in a sealed chamber and another killed in unmarked snow, each ask how a murderer could enter, strike, and vanish. Detectives, floor plans, and timed alibis do the work of explanation. The collection is a sampler of locked-room detection, not a single continuous narrative.

Bound in thermo-reactive paper blocked with designs by the artist. Blocked slipcase.