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(4) | None | Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most friendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for the first time, many have never been anthologized, and a few classics are included. Also included are 12 short anecodotes of real-life impossibilities: how can a man locked in his room without alcohol get drunk every night? How can heavy stone coffins in a sealed crypt be moved? How can hundreds of rare French books be stolen from an ancient library? These are just a few of the actual impossibilities that are explained in The Realm of the Impossible.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most friendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for the first time, many have never been anthologized, and a few classics are included. Also included are 12 short anecodotes of real-life impossibilities: how can a man locked in his room without alcohol get drunk every night? How can heavy stone coffins in a sealed crypt be moved? How can hundreds of rare French books be stolen from an ancient library? These are just a few of the actual impossibilities that are explained in The Realm of the Impossible. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - France: Jacob's Ladder (2014) / Paul Halter
- United Kingdom: Cyanide in the Sun (1958) / Christianna Brand
- Real Life Impossibility: Louis Calhern's Weakness
- Sweden: Windfall (2014) / Ulf Durling
- Czechia: The Case of the Horizontal Trajectory (1966) / Joseph Škvorecký
- Real Life Impossibility: Moving Coffins
- United Kingdom: The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express (1921) / Freeman Willis Crofts
- Australia: Dead Man in the Scrub (1867) / Mary Fortune
- Real Life Impossibility: Bridge to Nowhere
- United States: The Hidden Law (1914) / Melville Davisson Post
- France: House Call (1854) / Alexandre Dumas
- Argentina: The Twelve Figures of the World (1942) / Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Greece: Rhampsinitos and the Thief (c. 440 BCE) / Herodotus
- United States: The Martian Crown Jewels (1956) / Poul Anderson
- Lebanon: Leaving No Evidence (1938) / Dudley Hoys
- India: The Venom of the Tarantula (1933) / Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- United Kingdom: Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture (1905) / Victor L. Whitechurch
- Taiwan: The Miracle on Christmas Eve (2016) / Szu-Yen Lin
- Finland: Seven Brothers (excerpt) (1870)/ Alexis Kivi
- Portugal: Lying Dead and Turning Cold (1952) / Afonso Carreiro
- United States: The "Impossible" Impossible Crime (1968) / Edward D. Hoch
- Egypt: The Locked Tomb Mystery (1989) / Elizabeth Peters
- United States: Deadfall (1958) / Samuel W. Taylor
- Japan: The Lure of the Green Door (1991) / Rintarō Norizuki
- Italy: The Barese Mystery (2017) / Pietro de Palma
- Germany: The Witch Doctor's Revenge (2017) / Jochen Füseler
- Iraq: All the Birds of the Air (1950) / Charles B. Child
- United Kingdom: The Warder of the Door (1897) / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace
- Japan: The Locked House of Pythagoras (2013) / Soji Shimada
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