![]() ![]() No clues remain, and the instrument with which the murder was committed cannot be traced. He has no enemies, and there seems to be no motive for anyone murdering him. ![]() Originally published as The Big Bow Mystery in 1891 and republished by the Detective Club to coincide with a new film version called The Perfect Crime, Israel Zangwill's novel invented the concept of the ‘locked room mystery' and influenced almost every crime writer thereafter.Ī man is murdered for no apparent reason. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers. The Detective Story Club, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearinghouse for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world's first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that has copied the scenario since. ![]()
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