Classic Locked-Room Mysteries

Edited by David Stuart Davies, Classic Locked Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question ´howdunnit?´ Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle´s Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor. His fiction includes six novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and six Sherlock Holmes novels including Sherlock Holmes & the Devil´s Promise. He has also penned a series of dark gritty crime novels set in Yorkshire in the 1980s. Beginning with, Brothers in Blood and Innocent Blood. He is committee member of the Crime Writers´ Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. David is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes and is the author of two Holmes plays, Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life, which are available on audio CD. He has written the Afterwords for all the Macmillan Collector´s Library Holmes volumes as well as those for many of their other titles.