The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries
- ISBN-10
- 1845293371
- ISBN-13
- 9781845293376
- Category
- Detective and mystery stories
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Constable & Robinson Ltd
- Author
- Mike Ashley
Description
An anthology that covers 30 mysteries and crimes. It includes such stories as: a man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick; a man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years ago; and, a man vanishes at the top of the Indian rope trick.
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