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The 13 crimes of science fiction

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Description: "Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 classic kinds of mystery story"--Cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1979.
Call number: 474201
ISBN: 0385152205; 9780385152204
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Asimov, Isaac, (1920-1992.); Reamy, Tom, (1935-1977.); De Vet, Charles V., (1911-1997.); MacLean, Katherine. (1916-2013.)

The secret garden

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A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden

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Inspector Bencolin must unravel a dumbfounding locked-room mystery and apprehend a sadistic killer. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer imprisoned for attempting to kill his wife has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. Bencolin predicts his return, and his worst suspicions are realized when the beheaded body of the wife's new suitor is discovered in a locked room just feet away.

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The blue herring mystery

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Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship's log and the dead captain's haunted house start the ball rolling. Djuna has learned that Captain Beekman brought a treasure from his whaling trips. Who can have an interest in letting the boy get lost? Was Dejuna close to the answer of the mystery?

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Loose pages from January 13, 1983, issue with interview "To Be Different and Not Different: The Personal Mysteries of a Sleuth Sayer."

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The case of the constant suicides

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A castle in Scotland features a high tower, with the only way up being a spiraling staircase. In the top room, a man goes to bed behind a locked door, and is found in the morning – dead from a fall – at the base of the tower. Upon inspection, the only possible conclusion is suicide. The room was completely locked, there are no hidden entrances, and the tower can’t be scaled even by a skilled steeplejack. There is money on the line, as a substantial life insurance policy had been taken out just weeks earlier. In The Case of the Constant Suicides, there are multiple “suicides”, and each one thoroughly classifies as a locked room.

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The three coffins

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Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created. Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the only window remains unblemished. An equally puzzling murder has occurred outside, in the middle of the street: The illusionist Pierre Fley was walking alone in a snow-covered cul-de-sac when witnesses heard someone shout "The second bullet is for you!" followed by a gunshot. He is found dead, with the revolver that killed both Grimaud and himself by his side and no footprints in the surrounding snow but his own. It appears that both murders must have been committed by a specter -- someone not only invisible but lighter than air. But if anyone can find a rational explanation, it is brilliant amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell.

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The 13 crimes of science fiction

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