The Act of Roger Murgatroyd3 reviews Gilbert Adair Faber And Faber Ltd., 2007 A wonderful read + Fluffy and entertaining A well-paced mystery story, and an intelligent pastiche with elements of parody. Definitely an entertainment! If you are a fan of the golden-age detective story and are drawn to this book by its title - read it. Once for the pleasure of the mystery, and a second time to savour the details.             Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) (Detective Stories)11 reviews Dover Publications, 1976 Dee Goong An + A Unique Detective Novel + I just love thee Dee + Interesting , Vivid ,Cannot stop reading once u have started + Different detective             Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection)34 reviews Agatha Christie Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007 Mesopotamian Madness + Adventure and Murder in an Exotic Land + "I always look at 'the impossible' very carefully." + Poirot waits and pounces like a panther + Near Perfect             Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe72 reviews Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday, 1966 The Enduring Master of the Macabre + POEtic Justice + poes book Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, died October 7, 1849. What is it that makes an author famous? I don't mean famous in the sense a news article reports that "Jack Greylea's novels sold 15 million copies last year," but in the sense that he is thought of as being ...             Diagnosis: Impossible--The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne5 reviews Edward D. Hoch Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1996 Nothing is impossible! + Don't Forget to Get Diagnosis Impossible II! + 12 great story's + Another great collection of mystery's short story king. + a great short story writer.             The Judas window (Pocket books)8 reviews Carter Dickson Pocket Books, 1943 Classic detection and the best courtroom drama ever + The greatest Sir Henry Merrivale + unbelievably well-constructed mystery + Locked Room Classic + Nearly perfect locked room mystery             White Corridor10 reviews Bantam, 2007 Definitive British Mystery + More Peculiar Setting than Peculiar Crime + Total Enjoyment + Shock Corridor + Generally enjoyable... but did I miss something?             The Mystery Of The Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures Of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter1 review Gaston Leroux Dover Publications, 2006 great book for a mystery fan I read this book not knowing what to expect. I had read many mystery books before this one so I was pretty good at figuring out who the culprit was and how the crime was committed. The Mystery of the Yellow Room was a different story. As I was reading I tried to work out how it was done and who did ...             The Big Bow Mystery3 reviews Israel Zangwill Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007 Historically significant and a great read The fact that the mystery disappears after the second chapter in no way detracts from the joy of this book. From widowed boarding house attendants to freeloading artists to a detective that might as well be the anti-Sherlock Holmes, this is one of the funniest and meanest books to come out of the ...             More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne5 reviews Edward D. Hoch Crippen & Landru, 2006 More impossible fun + Fantastic Mysteries + Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!! + Another Hoch/Crippen & Landru collection that will satisfy lovers of classical mysteries. + THE GOOD DOCTOR IS BACK             Leopold's Way: Detective Stories of Edward D. Hoch (Mystery Makers) Edward D. Hoch Southern Illinois University, 1985 Leopold in these 24 stories is the head of homicide, later to become the depart­ment of violent crimes. Because he is given to interior musing, we learn the workings of the mind of a thoughtful de­tective. Showing Leopold’s mind, Hoch develops nuances of character rare in mystery stories. “The House by the Ferris” poses a typical Hoch problem. Ancient crone Stella Gaze ...             The King Is Dead: An Ellery Queen Mystery (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series)1 review Ellery Queen G. K. Hall & Company, 2000 Classic Locked Room Mystery King Bendigo was the head of a powerful family-run company, with his own island kingdom. Ellery and his father are hired to keep him from being killed after a series of anonymous notes announces his impending murder. The good: The mystery. It's a logic puzzle of a mystery, the kind Ellery ...             The Emperor's Snuff-Box (Carr, John Dickson)2 reviews John Dickson Carr Carroll & Graf, 1995 A book for those who hate JDC... and those who like him + More atmospheric than most Carrs This is an unusual Carr one meet in "The Emperor's Snuff-Box". No locked room or any other kind of impossible crime here. No Gideon Fell or Henry Merrivale. "Snuff-Box" is a stand-alone, one of those experimental books that Carr attempted now and then. And one of his very masterpieces. I doubt that ...             Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories (Judge Dee Mysteries)4 reviews Robert van Gulik University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Wonderful Chinese detective stories - 7th Century style! + The legendary Judge Dee + Judge Dee Short Stories + Sketches of the Judicial Life: China,Seventh Century             Tokyo Zodiac Murders: Detective Mitarai's Casebook1 review Soji Shimada IBC Books, 2005 Elementary, Detective Mitarai! This is one of those amazing books that, as soon as you have finished it, you are pushing into the hands of your friends and forcing them to read it immediately. A short, complex and innovative novel, it has an almost perfect balance between character-driven plot and straight analytical mental ...             Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories (Judge Dee Mysteries)4 reviews Robert van Gulik University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Wonderful Chinese detective stories - 7th Century style! + The legendary Judge Dee + Judge Dee Short Stories + Sketches of the Judicial Life: China,Seventh Century             The Act of Roger Murgatroyd3 reviews Gilbert Adair Faber And Faber Ltd., 2007 A wonderful read + Fluffy and entertaining A well-paced mystery story, and an intelligent pastiche with elements of parody. Definitely an entertainment! If you are a fan of the golden-age detective story and are drawn to this book by its title - read it. Once for the pleasure of the mystery, and a second time to savour the details.             The Mystery Of The Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures Of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter1 review Gaston Leroux Dover Publications, 2006 great book for a mystery fan I read this book not knowing what to expect. I had read many mystery books before this one so I was pretty good at figuring out who the culprit was and how the crime was committed. The Mystery of the Yellow Room was a different story. As I was reading I tried to work out how it was done and who did ...             Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) (Detective Stories)11 reviews Dover Publications, 1976 Dee Goong An + A Unique Detective Novel + I just love thee Dee + Interesting , Vivid ,Cannot stop reading once u have started + Different detective             Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe72 reviews Edgar Allan Poe Doubleday, 1966 The Enduring Master of the Macabre + POEtic Justice + poes book Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, died October 7, 1849. What is it that makes an author famous? I don't mean famous in the sense a news article reports that "Jack Greylea's novels sold 15 million copies last year," but in the sense that he is thought of as being ...