Blurbs for GAD Collections
(Note: Books are listed alphabetically, first by author and then by title.)
Allingham, Margery
Allingham Minibus, The (1973)
by Margery Allingham
Manor Books (1975)
Cover price: $1.50
Note: Endorsements and capitalized words are in red on a white background.
"IMPECCABLY WRITTEN AND GRIPPING!" -- Manchester Evening News
'Margery Allingham is perhaps the greatest master of detective fiction in the world. Voted one of the best mystery writers of all time, she weaves spine-tingling, complex puzzles that challenge even veteran fans.
'Her hero, Albert Campion, that ironic, understated detective -- like Holmes and Poirot -- can take a bit of evidence and unravel an entire, sinister plot.
'THE ALLINGHAM MINIBUS
is an exotic, often bizarre collection of her best stories, each guaranteed to delight those who love suspense.'
'Her mysteries are "consistently suspenseful, consistently terrifying, consistently superb."' -- New York Times
Mr. Campion and Others (1950?)
by Margery Allingham
Avon Books (1st printing, February 1991)
Cover price: $3.95
ROGUES GALLERY
'An enthusiastic equestrian who lives for hunting foxes, pretty women, and other people's jewelry ... A resilient nonagenarian who keeps returning from the dead to scam unsuspecting insurance companies ... A safecracker who prides himself on professional incompetence ... Now gentleman detective Albert Campion must match wits with a sinister assortment of lowlifes, crooks and cons in thirteen of the most baffling, bemusing, and breathtaking cases of his career.
MYSTERY AT ITS BRITISH BEST
'Equally at home in the underworld and among the upper crust, super-sleuth Albert Campion rarely misses a clue or fails to find a motive. Behind his horn-rimmed glasses and mild-mannered facade is a brilliant mind that can penetrate to the villainous heart of the most heinous crime.'
"Miss Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them."
-- Los Angeles Times
Anderson, Frederick Irving
Book of Murder (1930)
by Frederick Irving Anderson
Dover Books (1988)
Cover price: $5.95
"Worth the attention of the most captious mystery readers ... excellent writing, puzzling crimes and plausible and interesting detectives." -- Saturday Review of Literature
'Frederick Irving Anderson (1877-1947) was a star reporter for the New York World from 1898 to 1908 and a popular writer of crime fiction for The Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines. Unfortunately, because so much of his work was written for periodicals, his superb detective stories have fallen into undeserved neglect.
'Now this volume makes ten of his finest crime stories available again for the pleasure of today's readers, who will find much to enjoy in his unusual, dryly witty, ingeniously constructed whodunits. Most feature the great Deputy Parr (the "Man Hunter") of the New York Police Department and his crime-solving crony, Oliver Armiston. The latter is an ex-crime writer whose stories were so ingeniously plotted and difficult to solve that the underworld took their cue from Armiston's clever fiction and began to duplicate the crimes. Finally, unable to solve the cases, the police were reduced to paying Armiston not to write.
'A majority of the episodes here feature the daunting duo bringing perpetrators to justice in such puzzlers as "Beyond All Conjecture" -- an ingenious case of cyanide poisoning; "The Wedding Gift," built around a clever insurance scam; "The Japanese Parasol," concerning the untimely demise of a rich young heir; and "Big Time," involving the bizarrely contrived death of a renowned singing coach. Six additional tales offer further challenges for stay-at-home sleuths who like their crime fiction seasoned with shrewd evaluations of crime and criminals, enhanced with delightful low-key humor, and in many of these tales, imbued with the gracious ambiance of a bygone New York.'
Bentley, E. C.
Trent Intervenes (1938)
by E. C. Bentley
Dover Books (1981)
Cover price: $4.50
'Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. He comes to his avocation naturally, for he is a "man of tropically luxuriant mental gifts" who is "clever at getting at the truth about things other people don't understand." In fact, his wide knowledge of arcane bits of information stands him in good stead while pursuing the criminals in this collection of ingenious stories.
'Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where he is called upon to bring to bear his knowledge of antiques and heraldry, gold, medicine, law, the theater, geography, languages, literature, the book world, the underworld, and the world of wine. The crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods even if the criminal sometimes escapes. Several of the stories may be termed classics of the genre, including the first three -- "The Genuine Tabard," "The Sweet Shot," and "The Clever Cockatoo."
'As the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case, E. C. Bentley (1875-1956) needs no introduction to mystery connoisseurs. Trent Intervenes affirms Bentley's reputation as an author of the first rank and displays his ability to write equally well in the short story form. This volume is a selection of the noted mystery story list Queen's Quorum, compiled by Ellery Queen and containing the 125 most important volumes of short stories published in the crime-detective genre from 1845 to 1967.'
"To say that Trent in small pieces is as excellent as Trent entire is recommendation enough." -- Saturday Review of Literature.
"A collection of twelve stories, each and all worthy of your attention." -- New York Herald Tribune Books.
Berkeley, Anthony
Avenging Chance, The: and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook (2004)
by Anthony Berkeley
Edited by Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson
Crippen & Landru (2004)
Cover price: (TPB) $19.00
Note: Not the best designed back cover ever, with poor contrast between text and background.
DETECTION IN THE GOLDEN AGE
'In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) founded London's Detection Club, whose members swore that their "detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them." The Detection Club pledged "never to conceal a vital clue from the reader."
'Anthony Berkeley's novels and short stories featuring Roger Sheringham and Inspector Moresby are among the finest examples of the fair play, challenge-to-the-reader tradition of the Golden Age. Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader, but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in the introduction, he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways -- and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions.
'The title story in The Avenging Chance has long been considered one of the five or six greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects seven additional cases of Sheringham and Moresby, one of which ("The Mystery of Horne's Copse") is a recently discovered novelette. Also included are Berkeley's own tongue-in-cheek satire of the Sheringham stories and a complete checklist of the Sheringham novels and tales.'
Bramah, Ernest
Best Max Carrados Detective Stories (1972)
by Ernest Bramah
Dover Books (1972)
Selected and introduction by E. F. Bleiler
Cover price: $4.95
'Do you remember the exploits of "wise, witty" Max Carrados, the blind detective who flourished in Edwardian London, in those transitional days between hansom cabs and great motorcars? The chances are, if you are a fan, that you have run into Carrados before, for his cases have often been anthologized. Unfortunately, however, they have long been out of print and practically impossible to obtain.
'The present collection contains the very best stories about Carrados, ten adventures, ranging from his very first case, "The Coin of Dionysius," up through his cases in the World War One period and the early 20's. Several of them have never been printed before in the United States, and are almost certain to be new to you.
'If you are not already a devotee of Carrados (or perhaps Kai Lung, his fellow explorer in a different series of books), you now have the opportunity to meet a major writer in the offtrails of fiction. You can become acquainted with a great detective of the same literary stature as Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Thorndyke. Bramah, his creator, was one of the very few men working in the detective field who could combine physical and intellectual thrills with imagination and stylistic brilliancies. There is nothing else exactly like the Carrados stories in the entire corpus of detective literature.'
Brand, Christianna
Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries, The (2002)
by Christianna Brand
Crippen & Landru (2002)
Cover price: (TPB) $19.00
INSPECTOR COCKRILL INVESTIGATES
'Christianna Brand (the pseudonym of Mary Christianna Milne Lewis, 1907-1988) was a supreme mistress of the classic detective story, with twists and turns, and all the clues fairly given to the reader. The wizened, bird-like Inspector Cockrill of the Kent police starred in Green for Danger, one of the greatest detective novels to emerge from World War II, but THE SPOTTED CAT is the first collection of all of the short stories about him. Five of the stories have never previously appeared in a Brand volume, and one of them is published here for the first time. The book also includes a genuine find, a previously unpublished three-act detective drama featuring Cockrill.'
Carr, John Dickson
Third Bullet and Other Stories, The (1954)
by John Dickson Carr
Bantam Books (3rd printing, April 1965)
Cover price: 50 cents
THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
'Hazel Loring was slim, beautiful and intensely alive. She made her living solving other people's problems. But she must have had some problems of her own too. Because one night in the middle of December, she was found on a park bench wearing only a brassiere and panties.
'She was dead, dead, dead ...
'Her skull was crushed.
'There was a red wig on the bench beside her ...
THE THIRD BULLET
'Seven masterpieces of crime and detection by the great John Dickson Carr.'
Note: Some other Bantam editions are the same with one change:
'Seven puzzlesome masterpieces of crime and detection by the great John Dickson Carr.'
Christie, Agatha
Golden Ball and Other Stories, The (1924)
by Agatha Christie
A. Dell (1st printing, September 1972)
Cover price: 95 cents
MACABRE MASQUERADE
'A butler who wasn't a butler ... a Duchess who wasn't a Duchess ... a thief who wasn't a thief ... a madman who wasn't a madman ... a corpse that most definitely was a corpse ...
'Never has the bestselling author of Passenger to Frankfurt been in better form as she weaves her unique blend of spellbinding magic in The Golden Ball, now for the first time in paperback.'
B. Berkley Medallion (3rd printing, February 1985)
Cover price: $2.95
Note: This was a tie-in to a TV series.
THEY'RE SO ENTERTAINING ... IT'S CRIMINAL ...
'With her diabolical combination of fascinating characters and crackling adventure, Agatha Christie delivers suspense that doesn't stop!
'AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERIES II is a dramatic series on MYSTERY! a PBS television series presentation by WGBH-TV, Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.
'MYSTERY! will feature six of Agatha Christie's most famous stories.'
The front cover:
'FEATURING: JANE IN SEARCH OF A JOB.'
Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories, The (1923-71)
by Agatha Christie
Berkley Books (December 1998)
Cover price: $5.99
'A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery. The Harlequin Tea Set brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of her storytelling genius. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer ... In "The Actress," a great star's shady past becomes the plaything of a blackmailer ... In "The Harlequin Tea Set," Mr. Harley Quin helps a man save his loved ones from the greedy hand of murder. These and six other stories of danger and detection complete this truly stellar collection. It is Agatha Christie at her best.'
Labors of Hercules, The (1947)
by Agatha Christie
Dell (1st printing, July 1968)
Cover price: 50 cents
'A PURLOINED PEKINGESE
'A SLAIN SPOUSE
'A MISSING TEMPTRESS ...
began a twisting trail of murder, blackmail and larceny that led the formidable Hercule Poirot from the fog-bound streets of London to the icy reaches of the Swiss Alps, to the brink of total bafflement. Never had the great detective's powers of deduction been so confounded as in this, his greatest challenge.'
Mousetrap and Other Plays, The (1978)
by Agatha Christie
Signet (1st printing, September 2000)
Cover price: $7.99
'You're front-row center to murder as a homicidal maniac stalks the snowbound guests of an imposing manor ... as a group of strangers gather on an isolated island -- to the diabolical delight of a secret killer ... as a scheming wife takes the stand against her husband in a startling criminal trial. From The Mousetrap (the longest-running play in history) to Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution (both made into classic film thrillers), here are eight brilliantly staged acts of murder featuring twice as many suspects and final-curtain twists. All solved to perfection by the Queen of Crime at her royal best.'
Murder in the Mews (1931)
(a. k. a. Dead Man's Mirror)
by Agatha Christie
Berkley Books (February 1984)
Cover price: $5.99
'What clues to a man's death are reflected in the broken fragments of a shattered mirror? How could a woman commit suicide by holding a gun in her right hand to shoot herself in the left temple? What connection is there between stolen, confidential documents and bizarre rumors of ghostly apparitions? Who turned a holiday love triangle into a violent act of criminal passion? The questions are posed by the ingenious Agatha Christie. The clues are left to Hercule Poirot. The solutions are "not only unexpected ... but unpredictable" (The Times Literary Supplement).'
Mysterious Mr. Quin, The (1930)
by Agatha Christie
St. Martin's Minotaur (March 2002)
Cover price: $5.99
'A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year's Eve murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?'
Partners in Crime (1929)
by Agatha Christie
A. Dell (1st printing, January 1975)
Cover price: 95 cents
PARTNERS IN CRIME
'When a happily married couple decided to spike their bliss with a little blackmail and larceny, their lives became much more exciting. But when the excitement suddenly included murder, they realized that their togetherness could be dangerous -- and quite a bit shorter than they'd planned.'
B. Berkley Books (2nd printing, November 1984)
Cover price: $2.95
Note: This was a tie-in to a TV series.
'Meet Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, an extraordinary English couple who take over a near-bankrupt detective agency only to discover that it may be an information drop for Russian spies.
'Dashing, witty and clever, this fascinating detective team solves case after case assuming the methods -- and even the personalities -- of such fictional super-sleuths as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot!
'Agatha Christie's PARTNERS IN CRIME is a dramatic series on MYSTERY! a PBS television series presented by WGBH-TV Boston, made possible by a grant from Mobil Corporation.'
Poirot Investigates (1925)
by Agatha Christie
A. Bantam Books (7th printing, September 1973)
Cover price: $1.25
AN UNBEATABLE COMBINATION
'AGATHA CHRISTIE -- universally acclaimed as the all-time master of the novel of deduction.
'HERCULE POIROT -- the most ingenious detective in all mystery fiction.
'In Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie challenges her detective and the reader with a series of baffling mysteries.
'With all the clues plainly revealed, the reader should be able to arrive at the solution as soon as Hercule Poirot -- but few readers do!'
SEE IF YOU CAN OUTGUESS THE INCREDIBLE HERCULE POIROT.
B. Berkley Books (May 2000)
Cover price: $6.99
'What do a movie star, an archaeologist, a French maid, a prime minister, a wealthy dowager, and an Italian count have in common? Half of them have fallen victim to a terrible crime. The others have fallen under suspicion. Leave the deductions to Hercule Poirot. From a posh resort in Brighton to a cursed pharaoh's tomb in Egypt, Agatha Christie plunges Poirot into the most intriguing cases of his colorful career. With fourteen stories, fourteen crimes, and twice as many suspects, this delightful Christie collection firmly established the brilliant Belgian sleuth's reputation and standing in the canon of classic detective fiction.'
Regatta Mystery, The (1939)
(a. k. a. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories)
by Agatha Christie
A. Dell (5th printing, July 1970)
Cover price: 75 cents
'A DEADLY CHALLENGE ...
for the deductive imaginations of Agatha Christie's super-sleuths: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Mr. Parker Pyne --
'THE REGATTA MYSTERY
A fabulous diamond disappears without a trace. An innocent man is accused. The scene is set for murder.'
B. Dell (4th new printing, November 1974)
Cover price: 95 cents
TRIPLE THREAT
'Let murderers beware. Let thieves be on guard. Let blackmailers take flight. Not one, but three of the most famous sleuths of our time have come together in one of Agatha Christie's most spine-tingling triumphs.
'Here are the inimitable Hercule Poirot, the unflappable Mr. Parker Pyne, and the amazing Miss Marple, all facing deadly challenges -- and all coming through in their grandest style.'
C. Berkley Books (June 1984)
Cover price: $3.50
'A diamond worth several fortunes is stolen as a dinner party trick, and then stolen from the thief ... how lucky that Mr. Parker Pyne is also a guest at the party. The incomparable Hercule Poirot proves that a crowd is the best place for a murder. And Miss Marple solves a crime that stumped the police without every leaving her fireside. This superb collection assembles all of Agatha Christie's top detectives to solve the most challenging cases in their careers.'
Thirteen Problems, The (1933)
(a. k. a. The Tuesday Club Murders)
by Agatha Christie
Berkley Books (February 1984; 7th printing, June 1986)
Cover prices: $2.95, $3.99, $5.50
Note: All editions have the same back cover blurb.
'"Well," said Joyce, "how would it be if we formed a Club? What is today? We will call it the Tuesday Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer. Let me see, how many are we? One, two, three, four, five. We ought really to be six."
'"You have forgotten me, dear," said Miss Marple, smiling brightly.
'Joyce was taken slightly aback, but she concealed the fact quickly. "That would be lovely, Miss Marple," she said. "I didn't think you would care to play."'
Underdog and Other Stories, The (1925)
by Agatha Christie
Dell (1st new printing, June 1981)
Cover price: $2.25
NINE PERVERSE PUZZLES
'The one and only Hercule Poirot had never been beaten in the game of crime and punishment -- but now he faced the most lethal lineup ever to challenge his winning streak.
'Nine baffling riddles, each more perplexing than the last. Nine cunning culprits, masters of murder, menace, deceit and disappearance. Nine paths of peril, each leading to a startling solution. Nine new proofs positive that no matter what the odds, Hercule Poirot is unbeatable as the greatest detective of them all.'
Witness for the Prosecution, The (1948)
by Agatha Christie
St. Martin's Minotaur (September 2001)
Cover price: $6.99
'A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes the stand ... A woman's sixth sense -- and a loaded revolver -- signal premonitions of doom ... A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion, and is greeted with a dire warning ... Detective Hercule Poirot faces his greatest challenge when his services are enlisted -- by the victim -- in a bizarre locked-room murder. From the stunning title story (which inspired the classic film thriller) to the rarest gems in detective fiction, these 11 tales of baffling crime and brilliant deduction showcase Agatha Christie at her dazzling best.'
Commings, Joseph
Banner Deadlines (2004)
by Joseph Commings
Crippen & Landru (2004)
Cover price: (TPB) $19.00
MASTER OF THE IMPOSSIBLE!
'Joseph Commings (1913-1992) created one of the greatest investigators of locked rooms, impossible disappearances and other impossible crimes -- the gargantuan, harrumphing Senator Brooks U. Banner. During his long career (Banner first appeared in the pulps in 1947), he investigated such crimes as murder at a seance where everyone is straight-jacketed together and linked by touching feet, a strange spectre causing death in the middle of a lake, a killing in a sealed glass case, and a murder by a sword which must have been wielded by a giant. The most extraordinary story of all is "The X Street Murders," in which the victim is shot in a guarded room and the smoking-gun is delivered, a few seconds later, in a sealed envelope next door.
'This first collection of Senator Banner stories contains 14 cases solved by the buffalo-sized sleuth, including one co-written with Edward D. Hoch and another published for the first time.
'Banner Deadlines is the 12th in the Crippen & Landru "Lost Classics" series. The collection is edited by locked-room expert Robert Adey and includes a memoir of Joseph Commings by Edward D. Hoch.'
Crispin, Edmund
Beware of the Trains (1953)
by Edmund Crispin
Penguin Books (1981)
Cover price: $2.95
- 'Who burglarized the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?
- 'Did the village idiot or Mrs. Foley murder the mean-spirited Edgar Foley, or could the constable be responsible for the devious deed?
- 'Who on earth will be able to untangle the affair of the disappearing car, the black necktie, and the abortive theft?
'Enter Gervase Fen, Oxford professor and sometime super-sleuth, an expert at solving cases that baffle even the most astute policeman. These sixteen short classics by a master of the modern detective story will test your crime-solving abilities as well; Edmund Crispin has provided all the clues you need to detect the solution, using logic and common sense. Can you meet the challenge?'
Freeman, R. Austin
Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories (1973)
by R. Austin Freeman
Dover Books (1973)
Cover price: $3.95
'Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing, is best known for his character Dr. John E. Thorndyke, M. D., F. R. C. P. A close and careful investigator, and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also antedated and inspired many modern detection methods. The most famous of the Edwardian detective story writers, he is read with ever increasing pleasure today.
'This collection reprints eight of Freeman's best Dr. Thorndyke stories. "The Case of Oscar Brodski," "A Case of Premeditation" and "The Echo of a Mutiny" are among the outstanding examples of a form which Freeman created, the inverted detective story. In these stories the reader is presented with the complete "perfect" murder from beginning to end. The real heart and thrill of the story, however, begins when Dr. Thorndyke enters the case and from the few, almost minute, clues begins to spin a convincing web of evidence. "The Mandarin's Pearl," "The Blue Sequin," "The Moabite Cipher" and "The Aluminium Dagger" are stories of scientific detection. Every device used in these stories was previously tested by R. Austin Freeman through microscope and chemical analysis, through inventive reconstruction of murder weapons, etc. They emerge as some of the most remarkable wit-testers ever written. As a special feature of this collection, "31 New Inn," the story that established the character of Dr. Thorndyke, is reprinted for the first time since its original publication in Adventure magazine, introducing the reader first-hand to Dr. Thorndyke, Jervis, Polton, and the careful analysis that would come up over and over again in Freeman's forty years of outstanding detective writing.
'Howard Haycraft has called Freeman "the father of the scientific detective story" and perhaps of all modern detective fiction. Raymond Chandler has said, "This man Austin Freeman is a wonderful performer." Whether this is your first introduction to Dr. Thorndyke or whether you are already a Thorndyke fan, you will find the stories in this collection among his best, and will find yourself agreeing more and more with Haycraft and Chandler on Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke stories.'
Futrelle, Jacques
Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories (1973)
by Jacques Futrelle
Dover Books (1973)
Cover price: $4.50
'Suppose you were locked into one of the most secure prisons in America around 1900; put into solitary confinement, with periodical inspections by the warden, who knew for a fact (you had told him) that you would escape in less than a week. How would you communicate with the outside, how would you smuggle in tools and weapons, and how would you finally escape in a dazzlingly logical way?
'This was the situation that confronted Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, The Thinking Machine, in "The Problem of Cell 13," one of the most famous mystery stories ever written. Eventually The Thinking Machine did escape, and his method is known to generations of fans, who have delighted in this favorite story.
'Not so well known, however, is the fact that Jacques Futrelle wrote many more stories about this unusual detective. In this volume the editor has selected the ten best stories about The Thinking Machine, adventures that concern a perfect alibi and a perfect accusation, an impossible theft of a container of radium, a precise sealed room mystery, a seeming flaming phantom, and other "impossible" mysteries. This is the first time that these stories have been available for decades.
'Also included are two of the very earliest adventures of The Thinking Machine that have never been reprinted since their appearance in a local newspaper in 1905. Since by almost everyone's criteria, The Thinking Machine stories are the most important American detective stories between Poe and the moderns, this is an indispensable volume for everyone who delights in a mystery.'
Great Cases of the Thinking Machine (1976)
by Jacques Futrelle
Dover Books (1976)
Cover price: $3.50
'What is the crime that will explain a runaway speedboat with a corpse at the controls -- a corpse dressed like a French admiral, with no easily perceived cause of death? Why was an actor kidnapped, drugged with doped cigars, and forced to enact a deathbed scene? Why does a young lady badger a surgeon into amputating a perfectly healthy finger from her dainty little hand? The Thinking Machine is equal to all these mysteries.
'The creation of an American newspaperman Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912), The Thinking Machine -- Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen -- is in top form in the 13 stories of this collection. A brilliant but irritable scientist with a penchant for inexorable logic ("Two and two always make four, Mr. Hatch, not sometimes, but all the time"), he confronts mystifying situations head-on and uses his keen logic to come up with their solutions. Especially fascinating is the one story in this volume where The Thinking Machine does not solve the case -- in "The Haunted Bell" he provides an explanation, but this time he does not have the last word.
'All 13 stories in this collection are unobtainable elsewhere, and many have never before been reprinted. Readers new to The Thinking Machine stories will greatly enjoy them, and fans of Best "Thinking Machine" Stories (Dover, 20537-1) will relish this second volume of The Thinking Machine's best cases.'
King, C. Daly
Curious Mr. Tarrant, The (1935)
by C. Daly King
Dover Books (1977)
Cover price: $3.95
'An immensely old and priceless Aztec Codex, watched by two men, disappears from a locked room. Mysterious footsteps, heard even in broad daylight, horrible images of a hanged man haunt a thoroughly modern home. Unknown, headless corpses are found on a well-traveled highway heavily patrolled by the police. A beautiful girl lies dying of a sudden, mysterious illness which baffles the most eminent specialists. These are just some of the puzzles and dilemmas ingeniously solved by Trevis Tarrant in this remarkable collection of eight stories.
'This book contains murders, spies, disappearing objects, an Aztec curse, an Irish prophecy, voodoo, Egyptology, the occult, and more -- all inexplicable and bizarre occurrences which attract the curiosity and intelligence of Trevis Tarrant. Tarrant, a wealthy, cultured gentleman of leisure, not a detective or a private investigator, believes in cause and effect. They "rule this world," he says. His gift, to quote the author, is "to see clearly, to welcome all the facts, no matter how apparently contradictory, and to think his way through to the only possible solution by sheer logic."
'Besides locked room mysteries, there are stories of supposed ghosts, the seemingly supernormal, and a modern version (perhaps even a possible solution) of the Mary Celeste incident, an actual occurrence that first attracted the attention of Conan Doyle. Two stories involve Monsieur Hor, an extraordinary person with three eyes! And in all of them there is the valet, Katoh, a Japanese doctor and a spy.
'This book, in spite of its immense underground reputation, has never been published in the United States. It is one of the rarest volumes of twentieth-century detective fiction. C. Daly King (1895-1963) was a practicing American psychologist. Praised by English critics, including Dorothy Sayers, he has been called the "Aldous Huxley of the detective story" and the writer of "the intelligent man's thrillers." King's ability to concoct puzzles that are baffling, bizarre and devious have been compared with those of Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr and Agatha Christie.'
Leblanc, Maurice
Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar, The (1910)
by Maurice Leblanc
Dover Books (1977)
Cover price: $3.95
... For the present, I will content myself with those articles that can be conveniently removed. I will therefore ask you to pack them carefully and ship them to me, charges prepaid, to the station at Batignolles, within eight days, otherwise I shall be obliged to remove them myself during the night of 27 September; but, under those circumstances, I shall not content myself with the articles above mentioned. Accept my apologies for any inconvenience I may cause you, and believe me to be your humble servant, -- Arsene Lupin
'A letter written from the Prison de la Sante, Paris, to Baron Cahorn by the national thief of France, the master burglar and gentleman rogue, Arsene Lupin, who always keeps his promises. How he steals the priceless furnishings of the Baron's castle while still in prison is just one of the pleasures in this delightful and fascinating book. Nine extraordinary adventures are recorded here, one of them even involves Sherlock Holmes! All of them will puzzle, enchant and amuse mystery fans and lovers of a fast and good read.
'Lupin is a master of disguise, a consummate actor, a major stock-holder in the newspaper Echo de France which publishes his every exploit, the man who introduced jiu-jitsu to the Parisian public, and studied bacteriology and diseases of the skin for 18 months at a prominent hospital. He operates only in the finest chateaux and salons; his card was found one morning at Baron Schormann's residence with the following message on it: "Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine."
'In this first and best collection of Lupin's adventures we see his verve, his gaiety, his diversity, his inventive genius and the mysteries of his identity and life. And we see Lupin in action: arrested after a successful theft because of love; his notorious escape from prison; how he steals the Imbert millions; the black pearl; telling his victims at dinner how he stole their necklace; even outwitting the famous Sherlock Holmes; and more!
'Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) is one of the two important French writers of detective fiction in the first quarter of the twentieth century (the other being Gaston Leroux), and his work belongs in any collection of noteworthy detective stories. "To the skill of Sherlock Holmes and the resourcefulness of Raffles," writes a prominent critic, Arsene Lupin "adds the refinement of a casuist, the epigrammatic nimbleness of a La Rochefoucauld, and the gallantry of a Du Guesclin." You will enjoy these masterful adventures of a gentleman rogue.'
Good Old Stuff, The (1982)
by John D. MacDonald
Ballantine Books (7th printing, February 1987)
Cover price: $3.95
Note: Text size varies, sometimes up to large boldface.
'One of the world's bestselling -- and best-loved -- authors JOHN D. ~MacDONALD at his early best'
The Good Old Stuff
'Each of these terrific stories has been selected to give readers a taste of John D. MacDonald's great fiction. You'll recognize the inimitable MacDonald touch in the portraits of his characters -- professional criminals, city cops, adventurers, and amateur sleuths.'
The Good Old Stuff
'Featuring two recognizable prototypes of his contemporary hero Travis McGee ... vintage MacDonald ... a master at his best.'
Morrison, Arthur
Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories (1976)
by Arthur Morrison
Dover Books (1976)
Cover price: $4.50
'During the years 1891-1905, the Age of Sherlock Holmes, the best fictional detective in England after Holmes was, by all odds, Martin Hewitt. Very popular with readers of The Strand and the other magazines in which he appeared, Hewitt returns in this volume in nine of his best cases. These stories have long been unavailable in any form, and they are reprinted here in their original magazine versions, complete with all the original magazine illustrations.
'Hewitt enters the scene in "The Lenton Croft Robberies," where he is called on to solve three successive jewel robberies whose only clues are three half-burnt, wooden matches. In "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" he must figure out how mechanical drawings for a new torpedo could have been taken from an office where nobody went in and nobody went out. In other cases Hewitt tracks down the culprit who stole a valuable cameo from a locked desk in a guarded house, those involved in the disappearance of two cases of gold bullion from the hold of a sinking ship, and the person responsible for stealing a very valuable will right out from under the noses of the dying man's family. The final four stories concern a suicide that may be murder, a marital case that is much more than it seems, a clue to a treasure in a piece of music, and the robbery of a "sacred relic."
'Novel and imaginative in subject matter, meticulously plotted, and smoothly written, these stories will appeal to all modern-day readers. While today Arthur Morrison is remembered primarily for Tales of Mean Streets and A Child of the Jago, these stories reveal him to be one of the few top-rank authors to venture into the detective story.'
Orczy, Baroness
Old Man in the Corner, The (1901-05)
by the Baroness Orczy
Dover Books (1980)
Cover price: $3.50
"Among the first and greatest of all 'armchair detectives' ..." -- Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
'Ensconced in a cozy corner of a London teashop, a nameless, shabbily dressed old man toys ceaselessly with a bit of string as he unravels the baffling crimes of the day for an admiring lady journalist. Relying solely on his vast Holmesian powers of deduction, the "strange looking" sleuth never deigns to visit the scene of a crime, question a suspect, or examine clues. Nor does he have much faith in conventional police methods and crime-solving capabilities: "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."
'The enigmatic and self-assured "Old Man" was the creation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947), the Hungarian-born aristocrat perhaps better known as the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel. For this volume, noted detective-fiction authority E. F. Bleiler has selected an even dozen of the Baroness' finest tales involving the perspicacious "armchair detective." The stories range across a bloodcurdling spectrum of crime: gruesome murders (Lisson Grove Mystery, The Tremarn Case); deadly blackmail schemes (The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh); the perfect alibi (The Case of Miss Elliott); daring and ingenious theft (The Affair at the Novelty Theatre) and brilliant deception (The Liverpool Mystery). All are set in one of the most beloved milieus of detective fiction: the fog-shrouded streets of London, with gas lamps flickering in the gloom, the ever-present hansom cabs, and the details of the latest lurid crime splashed across the pages of the Daily Telegraph.
'Unlike most fictional detectives, the Old Man often seems to side with the criminals, who frequently remain uncaught, and in one adventure (The Mysterious Death in Percy Street) the anonymous sleuth even appears to implicate himself, attributing the crime to "one of the most ingenious men of the age, who will never be caught."
'The stories collected here originally appeared in The Royal Magazine, London, from 1901 to 1905. Their originality, cleverly devised plots, eccentric hero and Edwardian ambiance have earned them a secure place on Howard Haycraft's celebrated list of the "cornerstones" of detective fiction. Today's lovers of ingenious, well-crafted crime stories are sure to enjoy these unusual tales as much as did earlier mystery lovers around the turn of the century.'
Palmer, Stuart
Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (2002)
by Stuart Palmer
Crippen & Landru (2002)
Cover price: (TPB) $19.00
HILDEGARDE IS BACK!
'Hildegarde Withers, the creation of Stuart Palmer (1905-1968), is the original schoolmarm detective. After she first appeared in The Penguin Pool Murder in 1931, she was so popular that a series of movies starring Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason followed, and Palmer wrote short stories about Miss Withers for Mystery, a slick-paper magazine sold only in Woolworth's stores between 1933 and 1935. These stories, filled with the sights and sounds of New York during the depression -- museums, flea-circuses, burlesque shows, Latin gigolos -- are genuine forgotten classics.'
Pirkis, Catherine Louisa
Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, The (1894)
by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Dover Books (1986)
Cover price: $4.95
'In the Golden Age of the detective short story, eager readers would rush to read the latest exploits of their sleuth in The Strand Magazine or a similar monthly. Sherlock Holmes flourished in the fogbound streets of London in those exciting times, as did many of his rivals. Some of those rival detectives were women, and undoubtedly the most accomplished of the female sleuths was Loveday Brooke. Now the adventures of Loveday Brooke are here republished complete for the first time since 1895.
'Loveday Brooke's features were "altogether nondescript." But she had a curious habit of "dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit." Through this slit, Loveday can perceive what is invisible to others: the connection between a jewel theft and an abandoned black bag crammed with odds and ends and accompanied by a suicide note; the significance of the furtive behavior of members of a religious sisterhood; the meaning of the disappearance of a young woman's photograph shortly after the woman herself has vanished; and the hidden truth in several other intriguing cases on which the cagey investigator exercises her wits, including threats by mail, apparitions from another realm and a brutal murder.
'Able to assume a multitude of disguises and with ratiocinative powers rivaling those of the great Holmes himself, the indomitable Loveday Brooke rises to mastery of every mystifying situation in these seven picturesque and delightfully entertaining Victorian tales. A new introduction, written specifically for the Dover edition by Michele Slung, authority on the female detectives of fiction, discusses the importance of these stories in the context of Victorian life and literature and provides fascinating facts about Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Loveday Brooke's talented creator.'
Post, Melville Davisson
Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries (1918)
by Melville Davisson Post
Dover Books (1975)
Cover price: $3.50
'If you look at any critical list of the ten most important books of detective stories published in the United States, the chances are great that you will find in it Uncle Abner. It is generally recognized as a high point in the history of the detective story, one of the two most important American contributions (the other being The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle) between Poe and Hammett. Indeed, there are some critics who call it the single finest collection of short American detective stories.
'This famous collection, reprinted in its entirety, chronicles the detectional exploits of Uncle Abner, a powerful mind and moral figure in the wildernesses and frontier territories of the Appalachians -- the 1840's or 1850's, in what is now West Virginia. In these 18 stories, Abner, as seen through the eyes of his young nephew, exposes evil doing and evil doers with a combination of shrewd deductive skill and powerful personality that makes him seem at times to speak with the thundering voice of the Lord.
'Abner has many opportunities for his vision in this wild, brutal frontier land. How could a murderer come through a closed window, without so much as disturbing the cobwebs? How can a dead man and his horse be made to vanish? How could thieves creep through an ordinary keyhole to steal a hoard of gold?
'The late Melville Davisson Post was a lawyer before he became one of America's most highly regarded professional writers, and Uncle Abner stories (like his earlier Randolph Mason stories) abound with subtle nuances of evidence, criminal investigation, and points of law. He has also been considered one of the best short story writers of his day (c. 1910-1920 for his best work), highly regarded for his remarkable sense of form, plot imagination, economical writing, and inexorable inner story logic.'
Queen, Ellery
"New Adventures of Ellery Queen, The" (1940)
by Ellery Queen
Signet Books (1st printing, January 1973)
Cover price: $1.50
The Queen Magic
TRICK I
"The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear -- each as dead as the other."
TRICK II
"From The House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total blackness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back. A feat utterly impossible to perform -- yet brazenly and undeniably done."
TRICK III
"The piece de resistance. This time it's an entire house, a real house, a solid house which Ellery Queen had been in only the day before ... vanished from the face of the earth. And in its place, one of the most incredible conundrums ever to face the master crime solver."
ENCORES
"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN is a classic collection of eight short mysteries and a remarkable short novel. First published in 1940 it has sold over a million copies and continues to be 'as good as they come.' -- THE NEW YORKER"
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (1972)
Edited and introduced by James Sandoe
Perennial Library (1st edition, 2001)
Cover price: (TPB) $16.00
'A classic collection from "one of the greatest mystery-story writers of the (twentieth) century."'
-- Los Angeles Times
'One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as the next. Now in a single volume, here are all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, a treasure for any mystery lover. From "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag" to "The Image in the Mirror" and "Talboys," this collection is Lord Peter at his best -- and a true testament to the art of detective fiction.'
"What could be of greater joy to Wimsey fanciers than this volume of all the short stories about him? ... Every one a model of style, pure detection, and character-and-background delight ... Rich and glorious."
-- San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
'DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1893-1957) is the author of novels, short stories, poetry collections, essays, reviews, and translations. Best known for her detective fiction, she was one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford University. Recognized as one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, her Lord Peter Wimsey stories have been nominated for an Anthony Award for Best Series of the Century.'
Stribling, T. S.
Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories (1975)
by T. S. Stribling
Dover Books (1975)
Cover price: $4.95
'When the late T. S. Stribling (1881-1965) entered the field of the detective story with his first series of Dr. Poggioli stories in 1925-6, he brought into the detective short story the same abilities that later won him a Pulitzer Prize for his historical novels: a wry sense of humor that manifests itself in mildly cynical irony, a wonderful sense of paradox, a bizarre imagination, and a delight in evading the stereotypes of the form.
'At the end of the first series of stories about Dr. Poggioli, Mr. Stribling killed Poggioli in one of the most powerful endings in American literature, a situation that has been applauded through many anthologies. But like Sherlock Holmes, Poggioli was too vital to remain dead, and Mr. Stribling continued his adventures in stories even more imaginative than the first.
'This present volume contains the fifteen best stories about Poggioli that were printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Saint Detective Magazine from 1945 through 1957. They show Poggioli in all his finest analyses, in the gangster-ridden tourist cities of Florida, in a Mexico darkly colorful with Aztec survivals, in the Tennessee hills that Stribling chronicled so well elsewhere.
'Following Poggioli's off-trail logic, stories develop from the smallest leads into conclusions that would be impossible to imagine at the beginning: a town where the police always recoup thefts, but has too many traffic accidents; the psychology of land speculators and a murdered politician who admired Custer's Last Stand; a house that seemed mysteriously to paint itself during a hurricane; a fool-proof way devised to kill an enemy with his own gun; the scientific murders of Count Jalacki; and many other novel concepts.
'T. S. Stribling not only brought to the detective short story his own great abilities as a writer; he also significantly enlarged the scope of the story in subject matter and technique, with the result that there is nothing else in the field quite like his work. It is no wonder that his stories have long been favorites of aficionados.'
Clues of the Caribbees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph.D. (1929)
by T. S. Stribling
Dover Books (1977)
Cover price: $4.95
'Poggioli is back! That "smallish dark-eyed gentleman of a certain academic appearance," that professor of psychology at Ohio State University and most proficient of psychological detectives, is spending his sabbatical year in the Caribbean. This collection, never before reprinted in its entirety, contains five of his remarkable adventures in Curacao, Haiti, Martinique, Barbados and Trinidad. They were the first Poggioli stories to appear in book form, and are as fresh, humorous and mysterious as ever -- a treat for mystery buffs and all aficionados.
'Dr. Poggioli's unorthodox crime-solving methods -- trial-and-error inspirations and deductions -- start from the smallest clues and lead into conclusions that would be impossible to imagine at the beginning: a Venezuelan daughter cleanlier than the Dutch, musical notations of the tunes an unknown man sings, the importance of the color white, six men dreaming almost the same dream. These clues and others help solve crimes of revenge, murder, bank robbery, mutilation and the occult. In "The Governor of Cap Haitien," Poggioli serves as "the great American voodoo inspector." And the famous "A Passage to Benares," applauded through many anthologies, contains one of the most powerful and spectacular endings in American literature.
'T. S. Stribling (1881-1965), the noted American writer, brought to the detective story the same abilities that later won him a Pulitzer Prize for his historical novels -- a wry sense of humor, an irony that often borders on the cynical, an awareness of racial injustice and exploitation, a wonderful sense of paradox, a bizarre imagination, and a delight in evading the stereotypes of the form. Clues of the Caribbees is a basic book on almost every list of mystery masterpieces.'
Vickers, Roy
Department of Dead Ends, The (1978)
by Roy Vickers
Dover Books (1978)
Cover price: $4.50
'There are many Scotland Yards in English literature. There is the romantic, somewhat vague Scotland Yard tormented by Sherlock Holmes, the Yard that vies with Dr. Thorndyke, toadies to Lord Peter Wimsey, cooperates with Hercule Poirot. But one that stands out in the mind of aficionados is the unique creation of Roy Vickers in the Department of Dead Ends. This special department of the Yard collects and stores the detritus of unsolved crimes until some future time when the material may be utilized or discarded. The Department of Dead Ends is, in other words, a bureaucratic rubbish pile. But through chance, time, coincidence, even through a mistaken conclusion by an investigator, this material -- a child's toy doll, a book of poems, a yellow pinafore dress, an old suitcase, tortoiseshell toilet articles, etc. -- sorts itself out and becomes the ultimate solution.
'In creating this special department, the English writer Roy Vickers (1889-1965) wrote a series of short stories that almost all critics have rated as the best inverted detective stories since the work of R. Austin Freeman, and that many have considered the best British detective short stories of the 1940's and 1950's. For this collection, E. F. Bleiler has selected 14 of the finest stories in this series -- many long out of print -- from "The Rubber Trumpet" in 1935 (the first in the series) to "Marion, Come Back" (1958). The majority, however, were done in the forties and fifties, and almost all of them were originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
'Constructed in a sparse, direct narrative style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's in its avoidance of involvement, each story is a personality study, a life history of ordinary people falling or pushed into crime. The tales range widely over British society, from maids, clerks, successful businessmen to aristocrats and bankers, presenting the matter of dozens of novels in compressed, capsulated form.
'The informative introduction collects the few known facts about Vicker's life, and assesses his work and place in the history of detective fiction. As Mr. Bleiler writes, Roy Vickers was "one of the finest contemporary short story writers," and "few authors have been his match at concealing what every mystery writer wants to conceal."'
Wallace, Edgar
Murder Book of J. G. Reeder, The (1925)
(original title: The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder)
by Edgar Wallace
Dover Books (1982)
Cover price: $3.95
'Known to his admiring public as the "King of the Thrillers," Edgar Wallace was among the most popular mystery writers of all time. Confessing that his sole purpose was to entertain, Wallace was tireless in filling the ever-increasing demand for mystery fiction, completing 173 books and 17 plays in his lifetime and earning the right to be listed among the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. During his two-decade period of popularity, in the 1920s and 30s, it was estimated that one out of every four books read in England, excepting only Bibles and textbooks, was authored by Wallace.
'Edgar Wallace's popularity is no doubt attributable to his delightful sense of humor and uncanny ability to create an aura of suspense. These characteristics are nowhere more clearly displayed than in The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder. This book, a collection of eight short stories, exhibits Wallace's usual wit and craftiness, and presents his most memorable character: the honorable Mr. J. G. Reeder of the Public Prosecutor's Office, London.
"Mr. Reeder wore whiskers and a frock coat -- he always carried an umbrella -- his strongest expression was 'Dear, dear!' -- but he spread grim death through London's underworld." -- The 1929 Crime Club edition.
'Indeed, Mr. Reeder's name was anathema to bank robbers, forgers, counterfeiters, and perpetrators of fraud and other more heinous crimes. This seemingly mild-mannered British gentleman of old-fashioned sensibilities and wardrobe was always one step ahead of London's evildoers, and largely responsible for their incarceration. In Mr. Reeder's own opinion his successful sleuthing technique was the direct result of his possession of a "criminal" mind -- a mind that detected foul play in any situation which was the least bit suspicious.
'Whatever the source of his piercing powers of deduction, the stories contained in The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder will invite the amateur detective in every reader to puzzle out the surprise ending, matching deductive prowess with the incomparable Mr. Reeder.'
White, Hal
Mysteries of Reverend Dean, The (2008)
Lighthouse Books (1st printing, 2008)
Cover price: (TPB) $14.95
The young man lowered his voice, but sounded all the more intense for doing so. "Reverend," he said solemnly, "if God didn't do it, then it doesn't make any logical sense."
"Oh, it makes perfect sense," the reverend replied. "It makes perfect, horrible sense."
***
'The Reverend Thaddeus Dean has just retired as pastor of a small church at the foot of the Cascade Mountains. He is lonely, poor and desperately misses his wife who died years ago. Fortunately, he has a pastime.
'He solves murders that are so bizarre as to seem impossible.
'In each of the stories collected in this volume, Reverend Dean is challenged by a seemingly "impossible" crime. In one story, a pastor dies in front of his congregation when God appears in church and predicts his death. In another tale, three siblings are murdered -- one on a sandy beach, one surrounded by wet paint and one in the middle of a mudflat -- with no footprints near any of the bodies. In a third story, a woman is stabbed in her triple-locked, upper floor apartment -- although she is protected by a guard dog, and three witnesses insist that no one entered or left her unit.
'But those are only half the stories. Reverend Dean also investigates a suspicious suicide on a Caribbean cruise, a body that appears out of thin air in a locked garage, and a murderous shooter who disappears from an apartment surrounded by the police. Readers won't just have to guess who the criminals are, they'll have to guess how they committed their crimes.
'Harking back to the stories of John Dickson Carr, Hal White has created a brilliant yet endearing sleuth who not only investigates crimes that seem insoluble, but crimes that appear impossible. But these are not supernatural stories -- they are classic mysteries. And they'll leave mystery fans wanting more of Reverend Dean.'
Advance praise for the stories in The Mysteries of Reverend Dean:
"I very much enjoyed them ... May I be among the first (of many, I trust) to put in an advance order for the book."
-- BOB ADEY, author of Locked Room Murders, and co-editor of Murder Impossible and Death Locked In.
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